Sep. 9 at 7:15 PM
$PESI Lots of questions here. If the only seeming alternative to vitrification is grouting, would a legal battle ensue over that as the sole alternative (that's kind of a rhetorical question given the history at Hanford)? How long could that play out...months, years, until a new Administration or change in Congressional make up? In the interim, if that turns out to be the case, how long would the powers that be remain content to let the radioactive waste keep leaking and new leaking to occur? What would be the political risk for such a stalemate, particularly if cancer rates or deaths occur in the interim (which would obviously be seized upon by the party not in power as wedge issue)? Preceding all of that is, why in heaven's name would the government abandon over two decades of sunk effort and tens of billions of dollars of sunk cost a mere five weeks away from vitrification supposing to take place? Feels like a piece of the puzzle or an unspoken agenda is missing.
