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Who Was That Unmasked Man, Anyway?
Hanford Cleanup Workers Worry About Toxic Vapors |
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13 Aug 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Who Was That Unmasked Man, Anyway? Hanford Cleanup Workers Worry About Toxic Vapors Dozens of cleanup workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state -- the most contaminated site in the nation -- have registered complaints in the past two years about ammonia-laden vapors seeping up from waste tanks at the site. The workers bl ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, health, nuclear power, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, Washington (all these topics) |
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Downwind for the Count
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19 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Downwind for the Count Thousands of "downwinders" -- people living in the path of radiation releases from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation -- scored a legal victory yesterday when a federal appeals court ordered a lower court to reconsider two lawsuits against five former Hanford contractors. From 1944 to 1989, Hanford produced most of the nation's plutonium for warheads; research conducted ... |
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| Topics: health, nuclear power, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics) |
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