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Hundreds of former workers stricken by cancer and their families gathered in Richland Thursday in search of more money. The meeting comes after the U.S. Department of Labor extended benefits for former workers.
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The transition to the new contractor for Hanford's tank farms starts today. However, the transition to a new contractor for cleanup of central Hanford has yet to begin. The Department of Energy had announced that today was the soonest the transition might start, but has not issued a notice to proceed to the new contractor. At the tank farms, Washington River Protection Solutions begins work today to take over operations from outgoing DOE contractor CH2M Hill Hanford Group. The transition is expected to be completed Oct. 1.
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The Department of Energy needs more information to make sure its leak-prone underground tanks will last as long as they are needed to store radioactive waste, according to a report to Congress by the Government Accountability Office. "DOE and its contractors lack comprehensive information about the condition, contents and long-term viability of Hanford's aging underground waste tanks," the report said.
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RICHLAND, Wash.- The U.S. Department of Energy and its contractor are being hit again for a radioactive spill in Hanford's S-Farm in July 2007. DOE and contractor CH2M Hill Hanford Group have agreed on a proposed $30,000 settlement with the EPA.
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The nuclear reservation's beauty masks a deadly desert of radioactive waste, decrepit structures and fouled earth
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Hanford is one of the two Department of Energy nuclear cleanup sites with employee benefits more than 5 percent higher than comparable organizations, according to the Government Accountability Office. It issued a report last week to Congress providing information on DOE's management of costs and liabilities for pensions and post-retirement benefits for which it must reimburse DOE contractors. DOE is concerned about future costs for pensions and benefits for retirees, such as health care and life insurance, and congressional leaders find budgeting for fluctuating amounts difficult each year.
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The Department of Energy exploded two towers and then used more explosives to demolish two large water tanks Saturday at N Reactor along the Columbia River.
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The Department of Energy has awarded the new Hanford contract covering cleanup of the central area of the nuclear reservation to CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. It is a limited liability company formed by CH2M Hill Constructors and includes Areva Federal Services, East Tennessee Materials & Energy Corp. and Fluor Federal Services as major subcontractors. The contract is worth $4.5 billion over 10 years, which includes a five-year base period and an option to extend it for five more years, according to DOE. It replaces a portion of an expiring contract now held by Fluor Hanford.
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RICHLAND, Wash. A worker who was splashed with hazardous and radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation in 2002 died this week of cancer, one day before a federal appeals court ruled in his lawsuit against a contractor at the site. Daniel Golden, 56, of Sunnyside, died Tuesday. He had been diagnosed with cancer a little more than a year ago, said his son, Dave Golden.
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A worker who was splashed with radioactive waste at Hanford in 2002 died this week of cancer, a day before a court ruling in his lawsuit against a Hanford contractor. Daniel Golden, 56, of Sunnyside, died Tuesday. He had been diagnosed with cancer a little over a year ago, said his son, Dave Golden of Sunnyside.
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CH2M Hill Hanford Group will spend $30,800 to resolve a new fine issued by the Environmental Protection Agency against the Department of Energy and its contractor for delays in notification of a radioactive tank waste spill last summer. EPA announced the fine Monday, just four days after DOE fined CH2M Hill $302,500 for nuclear safety violations related to the spill. Including a settlement of an earlier fine imposed by the state of Washington and pay withheld by DOE, the spill has cost CH2M Hill almost $1.2 million.
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Apparently the Senate actually accomplished something this week in the environmental realm: the 2009 federal budget resolution that passed 48-45 on Wednesday included $500 million for a Department of Energy environmental management program to clean up Hanford and other nuclear sites across the country.
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The Department of Energy is fining CH2M Hill Hanford Group $302,500 for safety violations related to last summer's spill of radioactive waste at the Hanford tank farms. "It was only mere chance that prevented personnel from being directly contaminated by significant quantities of tank waste during the course of the event," said a letter sent Thursday to the DOE contractor from the DOE Office of Health, Safety and Security.
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The secretary of Health and Human Services has approved loosening the requirements for more Hanford workers to receive $150,000 compensation for many types of cancer. If Congress does not object within 30 days, the decision by Secretary Michael Leavitt becomes final. "I'm pleased by this decision," said Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., in a statement. The process to ease compensation rules "is very involved and takes longer than I and many others would like, but the right decision has been made for these Hanford workers and their families," he said. "Now we still need a fair resolution for workers since 1968."
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The Washington division of URS Corp. will lead a team cleaning up some 53 million gallons of radioactive waste in 177 underground tanks at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington.
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EnergySolutions Inc. and two partners this week landed a $7.1 billion federal contract to maintain the infamous Hanford Site's 177 storage tanks that are filled with 53 million gallons of residual radioactive materials and chemicals, the company said Thursday.
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HOUSTON, May 29 (Reuters) - URS Corp (URS.N: Quote, Profile, Research), an engineering and construction company, said on Thursday it was leading a group that won a $7.1 billion U.S. government contract to clean up underground waste tanks in Washington State.
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The U.S. Senate Thursday approved an additional $300 million for cleanup of the Department of Energy’s nuclear sites, including Hanford. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., worked to include the money in the Senate supplemental appropriations bill for fiscal year 2008 because of her concern that cleanup deadlines at Hanford are at risk and layoffs may be required.
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An appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling striking down Initiative 297, Washington state's voter-approved measure that would have barred the federal government from shipping waste to the Hanford nuclear site until all existing waste there is cleaned up.
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Marco Kaltofen is spending the week peering behind Mid-Columbia refrigerators and climbing into attics. In a project with Hanford Challenge and the Yakama Nation, he's collecting dust samples from homes and businesses to see if he can reconstruct the area's radiation exposure history. He'll be
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