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Pink slips going out at Hanford nuclear site
2013-03-19 09:01:20| Waste Management - Topix.net
Pink slips went out Monday to nearly 250 workers and more than 2,500 others were notified that they face furloughs of several weeks at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, where cleanup is likely to be slowed because of automatic About 9,000 people work at south-central Washington's Hanford Nuclear Reservation, which produced plutonium for ... (more)
Energy Department plans to ship Hanford nuke waste to New Mexico
2013-03-07 03:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Department of Energy on Wednesday put forward a long-term plan to extract and ship low-level radioactive waste from leaking tanks at Washington state's Hanford Nuclear Reservation to a dump in New Mexico. The announcement came two weeks after Washington Governor Jay Inslee publicly announced that six waste tanks were leaking at the World War Two-era nuclear weapons site, and coincided with a visit by the governor to Hanford. The plan faces several regulatory hurdles and may require New...
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New 73-story, $1B Tower Planned for Downtown L.A.; Buried Hanford Site Tank Show Signs of Leaking
2013-02-20 17:02:34| ENR.com: Headline News
A $1-billion, 73 story tower is planned for Los Angleles, and a buried tank of radioactive waste is showing signs of leaks at the Hanford Site.
Study Slams Nuclear Waste Practices at Hanford
2013-02-05 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Department of Energy Construction (and design) continue at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeastern Washington State, where radioactive liquid waste from weapons processing is to be turned into a stable glass form suitable for disposal. Management and disposal of radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington State, marred by problems for more than two decades, is the focus of a harsh new assessment by the Government Accountability Office. "By just about any definition,"...
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CH2M Hill Aims to Cut Costs with New DOE Subcontracts at Hanford Nuclear Cleanup Site
2013-01-30 18:58:56| ENR.com: Headline News
Contractor will open work to more prospective bidders and is set to put subcontractor employees on its own payroll.