Wyden, WA AG calls for accountability, transparency after problems at Hanford

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden is putting together a long-term plan to hold Hanford accountable in its clean-up measures.

Wyden, as well as, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson toured the facilities Thursday and Wyden says he's asking for hard deadlines of when clean-up is expected to be complete.

"The bottom line is $19 million [of taxpayer dollars] has been spent over the past 20 years and not one, not one gallon of high-level radioactive waste has been treated at Hanford," says Wyden.

Ferguson says there is a trial date for the Hanford lawsuit next May and he asked his legal team what he could do to expedite the process, as well as other legal measures he could take.

The tour and meeting follows a failed double-shell tank AY-102 and 42 workers at Hanford seeking medial attention after reporting harmful chemical vapors.