Hanford penalty

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Energy Dept. seeks $935,000 fine for Fluor


SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
July 16, 2004

The U.S. Energy Department is proposing a $935,000 fine for one of its 
contractors for alleged safety deficiencies at a project to remove 
radioactive sludge from Hanford Nuclear Reservation storage basins.

If the amount stands, it would be the largest civil penalty ever levied 
at Hanford, according to the department's Office of Price-Anderson 
Enforcement.

The preliminary notice of violation, which was issued yesterday, alleges 
significant design and management flaws by Fluor Hanford Inc. in the 
company's plans for removing 50 cubic meters of sludge from the K 
Basins, which are two 1 million-gallon pools holding spent nuclear fuel 
rods.

That plan was scrapped after an Energy Department review in April 2003.

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for the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/182333_hanford16.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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