2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:04:12 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Billions of Hanford [WA] dollars will stay separate under defense bill"
 
Billions of Hanford dollars will stay separate under defense bill

BY ANNETTE CARY
Tri-City Herald (WA)
May 30, 2018 

RICHLAND, WA - The Department of Energy's two Hanford offices would remain separate at least through 2024 under the defense spending authorization act approved by the U.S. House.

The offices oversee the work of more than 9,000 workers cleaning up the radiological and chemical contamination left at the nuclear reservation from the past production of plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons program.

In 1998, former Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., created the DOE Hanford Office of River Protection to bring focused attention to one of the nuclear reservation's most complex issues — 56 million gallons of radioactive waste held in underground tanks, some of them leaking or prone to leaks.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article212153354.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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