[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Stimulating Hanford (CA) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hanford pulls down big stimulus dollars

By Harry Esteve
The Oregonian
December 6, 2009

RICHLAND, Wash. -- It was ground zero for nuclear bomb production, then 
it became the nation's biggest atomic waste headache. Now the old 
Hanford nuclear reservation boasts a new distinction: It is the single 
biggest recipient of federal stimulus contracts.

The plan is to pump an additional $2 billion into the enormous effort to 
decontaminate the remote campus a few miles from the Oregon border, 
where abandoned reactors rise like weeds amid miles of sagebrush, and 
toxic plumes of waste roil underground.

The money equals Hanford's annual cleanup budget and accounts for more 
than a quarter of the total stimulus spending in Washington. It's the 
reason the state ranks third in the number of stimulus-related jobs, 
despite being 13th in population.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/12/hanford_pulls_down_big_stimulu.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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