[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Contamination halts work at Hanford [WA] project"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contamination halts work at Hanford project. It’s the 8th worker exposure this year

BY ANNETTE CARY
TRI-CITY HEARLD (WA)
NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Work has halted at Hanford to remove a highly radioactive spill just north of Richland after an eighth incident this year in which a worker’s clothing or skin was contaminated with radioactive waste.

The 324 Building sits over a leak of radioactive cesium and strontium into the soil beneath it at the site about one mile north of Richland and about 300 yards west of the Columbia River.

“Although individually the contamination levels (on workers) have been low and no dose has been assigned to workers, collectively the number of personnel contamination events indicate a negative trend in contamination control that corrective actions taken to date have been inadequate to address,” the Department of Energy wrote in a Nov. 14 letter to its contractor on the project, CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article237601614.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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