[CPEO-MEF] Hanford (WA) plutonium mishap

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hanford workers take cover for mishap

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
June 8, 2006


Hanford workers were ordered to take cover Wednesday morning when a 
container of waste contaminated with plutonium slid off a forklift and 
rolled onto its side.

Workers in the 200 West Area near the center of the nuclear reservation 
were ordered inside about 10 a.m. as a precaution against any release of 
radioactive material.

By 11 a.m., contractor Fluor Hanford had confirmed the container was not 
breached, and the order was lifted.

The incident involved a sealed container of waste at the Plutonium 
Finishing Plant that had been loaded onto a pallet. A forklift picked up 
the pallet and was driving down an outside ramp northwest of the main 
processing building when the driver felt the load slip, said Fluor 
Hanford spokesman Geoff Tyree.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/7813275p-7727505c.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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