[CPEO-MEF] Hanford (WA) 300 area

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

300 Area cleanup ahead of schedule

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
September 4, 2006


The part of the Hanford nuclear reservation most visible to the public 
is starting to look a little bare.

Only a few buildings remain in the north end of the 300 Area north of 
Richland. Look down Ginko Street in the 300 Area, and concrete pads are 
all that remain of many of the gray buildings that once stood there. 
Today, you can see the Columbia River at the end of the street.

When Washington Closure Hanford took over work to clean up Hanford along 
the Columbia River a year ago, it told the Department of Energy it would 
have 21 buildings demolished at the site by the end of this month.

Already 62 are down and the contractor expects to have 70 demolished by 
the end of the month. A little more than half of those are in the 300 Area.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/8156648p-8049480c.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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