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Hanford and Sums
Feds, Washington State Reach Agreement on Hanford Cleanup |
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27 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Hanford and Sums Feds, Washington State Reach Agreement on Hanford Cleanup After years of bitter wrangling, the federal government and Washington state on Friday reached an agreement on a timeline for cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southern Washington. Under the deal, the U.S. Energy Department will treat the equivalent of several hundred thousand b ... |
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| Topics: nuclear power, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics) |
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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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