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April 5th, 2013 at 3:30 pm
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I have to wonder if the title for your article uses the word “suddenly” in a sarcastic manner.
The problems at Hanford are not new and did not suddenly appear. The tanks you refer to as “rust perforated carbon steel tanks” have met their design lives, which was the technical side of the problem
The real issues at Hanford and nuclear waste in general are political and economic in nature. The engineers who designed and fabricated the tanks gave the politicians approximately fifty years to come up with a way to dispose of their contents.
Those fifty years (the corrosion allowance of the tanks) has now been used up and you can expect that the remaining tanks will have leaks starting to occur along a normal population curve. In other words, they will start leaking the way popcorn kernels go off when exposed to hot oil.
The impending problems have not occurred suddenly, rather, they are the result of decades of benign neglect and ignorance of the underlying issues.
Commercial spent nuclear fuel is a similar problem. The Government promised to open a facility to begin accepting it from power plants by the 1980’s. That has never occurred. Do you think that one of these days someone will declare that “suddenly” there is a problem with spent nuclear fuel? It was, is and, if you consider how long the stuff lasts, always will be a problem.
We are currently ignoring that problem and doing so at our, and future generations, peril because it is economically and politically expedient to do so.