[ti:US Nuclear Waste Cleanup Delayed]
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[00:00.04]For more than 20 years, nuclear waste in the United States
[00:05.36]has been stored at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southern New Mexico.
[00:12.64]The waste is placed deep inside large salt caves.
[00:18.96]Trucks usually bring several shipments a week of materials contaminated with radioactive elements
[00:27.60]from South Carolina, Idaho and other areas.
[00:33.80]Now, shipments to the plant will come almost to a complete stop
[00:39.12]as the U.S. deals with the new coronavirus crisis.
[00:45.52]National laboratories and defense sites in the United States
[00:50.68]are carrying out only those operations considered "mission critical."
[00:57.60]Officials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant warned state officials in a letter
[01:04.52]that more time would be needed for inspections.
[01:09.44]They added that work would either be decreased or that they would take measures
[01:14.88]to make sure workers keep their distance from one another.
[01:20.72]Donavan Mager is a spokesman for Nuclear Waste Partnership, which runs the plant.
[01:28.16]He told the Associated Press, "This action is being taken out of an abundance of caution
[01:35.52]for the safety of employees and the community."
[01:40.76]The same thing is happening at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[01:46.04]The once-secret city in northern New Mexico became famous for being the birthplace of the atomic bomb.
[01:55.44]Most employees there are working away from the area.
[02:01.08]Some work related to cleanup will continue, such as radiological studies
[02:07.04]and inspections of harmful waste storage areas.
[02:12.12]Workers will also keep watch of an early warning system designed to protect drinking water supplies.
[02:21.80]In Washington state, visitors are no longer permitted at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
[02:30.00]Public meetings at the site have been canceled.
[02:34.12]The number of employees there has decreased to the "absolute minimum."
[02:40.88]The employees are those needed to run safety and security programs
[02:46.64]and keep technology systems in operation for those working at home.
[02:53.44]Officials at these and other sites say their decisions are guided by state and federal public health orders.
[03:02.48]The aim is to get people to stay home and limit contact with others
[03:08.76]to ease the growing number of cases and deaths related to COVID-19.
[03:16.88]Worker safety is always a top priority, said U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell.
[03:25.72]She and others pushed for more money and federal action
[03:30.24]to speed up the nation's cleanup program during a congressional meeting in early March.
[03:38.56]"We are fighting to make sure workers and their families are taken care of during this crisis
[03:45.64]and that workers have the resources they need to meet cleanup goals
[03:50.76]when they are able to safely return to their jobs," she told The Associated Press in an email.
[03:59.52]The Trump administration's proposed budget for the U.S. Energy Department includes nearly $27 billion.
[04:09.28]Most of that money would go toward nuclear security work
[04:13.56]that includes restarting production of parts used inside nuclear weapons.
[04:21.52]Less than 25 percent of that would be used for cleanup of 16 sites in 11 states.
[04:30.80]The federal government has agreements with several states to reach certain cleanup goals.
[04:37.92]Officials note that the Energy Department's environmental managers
[04:42.60]are considering the possible effects on current projects as the virus spreads.
[04:50.52]Jay Coghlan is executive director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico.
[04:57.12]He said, "The coronavirus pandemic demonstrates why we should get cleanup done once and for all...
[05:04.64]the radioactive and toxic wastes that we leave behind last longer than our recorded history.
[05:12.96]We should be acting now."
[05:16.88]U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich said worker health should remain the main concern.
[05:25.64]But they noted that increased funding for environmental management
[05:30.08]could help support jobs and speed up cleanup in the future.
[05:36.56]I'm Jonathan Evans.
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