[CPEO-MEF] Demolition of Hanford (WA) building

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hanford building set for demolition (w/ video)

This story was published Thursday,

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
April 12, 2007

After 428 "dives" by Hanford workers into the vaults beneath the 
Plutonium Finishing Plant's Liquid Waste Treatment Facility, the Cold 
War relic is ready to come down.

It will be the second of nine highly contaminated buildings at the 
Plutonium Finishing Plant to be demolished and likely the last to be 
demolished for several years.

"The surface contamination when we started (was) pretty much off the 
scale," said project manager Brian Skeels of Fluor Hanford.

In many cases, radiation levels were too high for instruments to read 
when cleanup work started. And the air within the vaults was 
contaminated at levels 30,000 times what workers are allowed to breathe 
without respirators.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/8786984p-8688390c.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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