[CPEO-MEF] Oak Ridge (TN ) "hot zone"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

ORNL will excavate hot zone in 2007

Core samples of radioactive soil to be removed from site this May

By FRANK MUNGER
Knoxville News Sentinel (TN)
April 3, 2006

OAK RIDGE - Five years after a cleanup effort was abandoned because of 
dangerous radiation levels, federal contractors are again making plans 
to excavate an underground zone of highly radioactive soil in the middle 
of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Bechtel Jacobs Co., the U.S. Department of Energy's environmental 
manager, and subcontractors will begin taking core samples from the area 
in May to verify the nuclear constituents and evaluate potential hazards.

Excavation of the site, with removal of about 200 cubic yards of soil, 
is tentatively scheduled to begin in November 2007, said Dennis Hill, a 
spokesman for Bechtel Jacobs.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4590789,00.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
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