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Nuclear Waste: DOE's Handling of Hanford Reservation Iodine Information

RCED-88-158 Published: May 25, 1988. Publicly Released: Jun 21, 1988.
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In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Energy's (DOE) handling of information on detection of radioactive iodine below the surface of the Hanford nuclear reservation to determine: (1) why DOE did not release the information before August 1987; and (2) the effect the information might have had on the selection of the Hanford site as a candidate nuclear waste repository site.

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