[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Hanford (WA) contingency plans

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contingency plans being developed at Hanford in case shutdown continues

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
October 7, 2013

Contingency plans are being developed at Hanford to keep the nuclear  
reservation in a safe condition if the federal government shutdown  
continues.

How long work can continue as usual is uncertain. Since the start of  
the current fiscal year, Oct. 1, Hanford environmental cleanup has  
continued, at least in part, with carryover money from the previous  
fiscal year.

But the Department of Energy has not said how much money is  
available. And questions remain about how much flexibility DOE will  
have to move money among projects to provide flexibility to allow  
cleanup work to continue.

DOE has produced a department-wide plan that addresses federal  
employees, but not contractor employees, the majority of the  
approximately 8,000 workers at Hanford.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/10/07/2614190/contingency-plans- 
being-developed.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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