Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those officials were stricken with a strange sense of de ja vu this week, when Washington Gov. Dixie Lee Ray shut down the Hanford site, claiming that federal agencies were not properly monitoring shipments of the hazardous materials...
...closed the site after a spot check revealed that three of nine trucks carrying waste into her state were violating safety procedures. The site, she said, would remain closed until officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Transportation--the agencies charged with hazardous materials transportation-strengthened their protective measures...
...Washington, a NRC spokesman still had no comment. But everyone agrees the situation is serious: the only other possible site--located in the wilds of Beattie, Nevada--is closed to new customers. "If you haven't shipped to it before," said an Interex spokesman, "you can't start...
State officials, who say they will do what is necessary to protect the plant, have said they will arrest anyone who trespasses on the site...
After cutting down fences to enter the 715-acre plant site, protesters will not commit any acts of violence or destroy any property, Bittone said...