Second whistleblower Donna Busche fired at troubled Wash. State Hanford nuke plant

[kristopher]

Second whistleblower Donna Busche fired at troubled Wash. State Hanford nuke plant


A second whistleblower at the troubled Hanford Nuclear Power Reservation in Washington State is out of a job. The facility is owned by the Department of Energy, and it's undergoing a multi-billion-dollar clean-up.

Her employer denies the woman's firing was tied to her ongoing complaints about safety concerns, but as Carter Evans reported on "CBS This Morning," she believes it sends an ominous message.

Asked if she feels like she's a target, Donna Busche said: "Absolutely."

Until Tuesday, Busche was the manager of Environmental and Nuclear Safety at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. CBS News interviewed her in October after one of her colleagues was also fired. They had raised concerns about the $13 billion cleanup of a treatment facility in southeastern Washington State.

There are currently 53 million gallons of nuclear waste held in 177 underground tanks....

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/second-whistleblower-donna-busche-fired-at-troubled-wash-state-hanford-nuke-plant/

Series of CBS video segments on topic here: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/hanford-whistleblowers-say-theyre-targeted/

[madokie]

1. They just can't be having the truth coming out now can they

One of the biggest mistakes man has ever done is unleashing the power of splitting atoms. If we could roll back time that would be the number one thing on the list to undo.

[Altair_IV]

2. Nothing to do with commercial nuclear power

The Hanford site and the waste that is stored there is the result of the nuclear weapons program; and not the commercial power program. The weapons waste goes all the way back to World War II. At some point the AEC and its successor agency the Dept. of Energy were going to ultimately dispose of these waste materials. The main problem is that Congress has never seriously allocated the money it would take to properly clean-up. The underground tank farms at the Hanford site were a temporary, stop-gap measure. However, Congress has always voted to continue the stop-gap measure and to put off the ultimate decisions for what to do with this waste that we have had since World War II.

Altair_IV

[madokie]

3. You do think everyone is stupid but yourself don't you?

What a sad little person you must be.
Why don't you get a life instead of following us around here on this board thinking you're educating us about nuclear. Don't tell me you weren't just banned from here recently either as I and several others know better

Again its always someone else's fault when it comes to nuclear anythings shortcomings