{"id":34217,"date":"2013-02-22T22:52:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34217"},"modified":"2013-02-22T22:52:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:52:01","slug":"huffpost-hanford-nuclear-reservation-tanks-leaking-radioactive-waste-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/02\/22\/huffpost-hanford-nuclear-reservation-tanks-leaking-radioactive-waste-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost: Hanford Nuclear Reservation Tanks Leaking Radioactive Waste Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) &#8212; Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation&#8217;s most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, federal and state officials said Friday, prompting calls for an investigation from a key senator.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said the leaking material poses no immediate risk to public safety or the environment because it would take a while &#8212; perhaps years &#8212; to reach groundwater.<\/p>\n<p>But the leaking tanks raise new concerns about delays for emptying them and strike another blow to federal efforts to clean up south-central Washington&#8217;s Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where successes often are overshadowed by delays, budget overruns and technological challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Energy spokeswoman Lindsey Geisler said there was no immediate health risk and said federal officials would work with Washington state to address the matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/02\/22\/hanford-nuclear-reservation_n_2744974.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) &#8212; Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation&#8217;s most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, federal and state officials said Friday, prompting calls for an investigation from a key senator. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said the leaking material poses no immediate risk to public safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34218,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34217\/revisions\/34218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}