DOE/EIS-0391: Final Environmental Impact Statement (November 2012)

Hanford Tank Closure and Waste Management, Hanford Site, Richland, WA

Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance

December 6, 2012

Hanford Tank Closure and Waste Management, Hanford Site, Richland, WA

This EIS evaluates the environmental impacts for the following three key areas: (1) retrieval, treatment, and disposal of waste from 149 single-shell tanks (SSTs) and 28 double-shell tanks and closure of the SST system, (2) decommissioning of the Fast Flux Test Facility, a nuclear test reactor, and (3) disposal of Hanford’s waste and other DOE sites’ low-level and mixed low-level radioactive waste.