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Study dismisses Hanford B Reactor for national park - Mid-Columbia News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 14 Dec 09
     
    actor looks at several options but dismisses the possibility of making the reactor directly part of the national park system. Only Los Alamos, N.M., is being considered to be named a Manhattan Project National Historical Park. However, most of the five options being considered for Hanford would offer some possible park service role to provide technical assistance or educational programs for B Reactor.
  • Energy Net on 14 Dec 09
     
    actor looks at several options but dismisses the possibility of making the reactor directly part of the national park system. Only Los Alamos, N.M., is being considered to be named a Manhattan Project National Historical Park. However, most of the five options being considered for Hanford would offer some possible park service role to provide technical assistance or educational programs for B Reactor.
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Risk unlikely to be great unless exposure was very high - Times Online - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 07 Dec 09
     
    Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, which has one proton and two neutrons, where a normal atom of the element would have one proton and no neutrons. It is produced naturally when hydrogen is bombarded by cosmic rays, and is also a by-product of reactions that drive nuclear power plants. Tritium atoms almost invariably bind to oxygen atoms, to create tritiated water. The isotope is a weak source of radiation, emitting low-energy beta particles that cannot penetrate the skin, and are therefore not dangerous outside the body. If inhaled or swallowed, however, the beta particles present a radiation hazard. As with all poisons, the risk depends on the dose.Trace levels of tritium are present naturally in all water supplies and are not harmful. Higher exposures, however, may cause cancer, and have also been linked to birth defects in the children of people who are exposed.
  • Energy Net on 07 Dec 09
     
    Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, which has one proton and two neutrons, where a normal atom of the element would have one proton and no neutrons. It is produced naturally when hydrogen is bombarded by cosmic rays, and is also a by-product of reactions that drive nuclear power plants. Tritium atoms almost invariably bind to oxygen atoms, to create tritiated water. The isotope is a weak source of radiation, emitting low-energy beta particles that cannot penetrate the skin, and are therefore not dangerous outside the body. If inhaled or swallowed, however, the beta particles present a radiation hazard. As with all poisons, the risk depends on the dose.Trace levels of tritium are present naturally in all water supplies and are not harmful. Higher exposures, however, may cause cancer, and have also been linked to birth defects in the children of people who are exposed.
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Demolition of first Hanford processing canyon begins (w/photo gallery) - Mid-Columbia News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 07 Dec 09
     
    Work is under way at Hanford to prepare the first huge processing canyon in the Department of Energy's nationwide nuclear weapons complex for demolition. DOE approved a plan for demolishing U Plant in central Hanford in 2005, but then decided to focus its budget on environmental cleanup closest to the Columbia River first. But with $1.96 billion in federal economic stimulus money allocated to Hanford, DOE has been able to begin preparing U Plant to be torn down.
  • Energy Net on 07 Dec 09
     
    Work is under way at Hanford to prepare the first huge processing canyon in the Department of Energy's nationwide nuclear weapons complex for demolition. DOE approved a plan for demolishing U Plant in central Hanford in 2005, but then decided to focus its budget on environmental cleanup closest to the Columbia River first. But with $1.96 billion in federal economic stimulus money allocated to Hanford, DOE has been able to begin preparing U Plant to be torn down.
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Nukes are necessary, Clean Energy forum hears - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 07 Dec 09
     
    Top Obama Administration officials, in Seattle for a Clean Energy Economy forum, touted new "clean" power sources as a wellspring for new American jobs. But there were surprisingly glowing words for nuclear power. "We're laying a foundation for our economic future: We all believe that a cornerstone of that will be a clean energy economy," said U.S. Environmental Protection Agency boss Lisa Jackson. But an administration colleague, Undersecretary of Energy Kristina Johnson, praised nuclear energy - even though a collapsing nuclear construction program once threatened to melt down the Northwest's economy.
  • Energy Net on 07 Dec 09
     
    Top Obama Administration officials, in Seattle for a Clean Energy Economy forum, touted new "clean" power sources as a wellspring for new American jobs. But there were surprisingly glowing words for nuclear power. "We're laying a foundation for our economic future: We all believe that a cornerstone of that will be a clean energy economy," said U.S. Environmental Protection Agency boss Lisa Jackson. But an administration colleague, Undersecretary of Energy Kristina Johnson, praised nuclear energy - even though a collapsing nuclear construction program once threatened to melt down the Northwest's economy.
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DOE scraps cheaper waste treatment plan - Mid-Columbia News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 21 Dec 09
     
    The Department of Energy has dropped a proposal for a less expensive alternative to treating and disposing of some of Hanford's radioactive tank waste. The alternative could have saved as much as $459 million, according to figures in an earlier Government Accountability Office report, but Hanford officials were unable to win the regulatory support of the states of washington and New Mexico. About $40 million has been spent on the project. Less than two months ago, DOE released a draft environmental impact study that included the less expensive option of sending some of Hanford's tank waste to a federal repository in New Mexico rather than glassifying it at the $12.2 billion vitrification plant being built at Hanford.
  • Energy Net on 21 Dec 09
     
    The Department of Energy has dropped a proposal for a less expensive alternative to treating and disposing of some of Hanford's radioactive tank waste. The alternative could have saved as much as $459 million, according to figures in an earlier Government Accountability Office report, but Hanford officials were unable to win the regulatory support of the states of washington and New Mexico. About $40 million has been spent on the project. Less than two months ago, DOE released a draft environmental impact study that included the less expensive option of sending some of Hanford's tank waste to a federal repository in New Mexico rather than glassifying it at the $12.2 billion vitrification plant being built at Hanford.
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Department of Energy - Secretary Chu Announces Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future - 0 views

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  • The members of the Blue Ribbon Commission are: Lee Hamilton, Co-ChairLee Hamilton represented Indiana's 9th congressional district from January 1965-January 1999.  During his time in Congress, Hamilton served as the ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and chaired the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.  He is currently president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University.He is a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council.  Previously, Hamilton served as Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission). Brent Scowcroft, Co-ChairBrent Scowcroft is President of The Scowcroft Group, an international business advisory firm. He has served as the National Security Advisor to both Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. From 1982 to 1989, he was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm.Scowcroft served in the military for 29 years, and concluded at the rank of Lieutenant General following service as the Deputy National Security Advisor. Out of uniform, he continued in a public policy capacity by serving on the President's Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the Commission on Strategic Forces, and the President's Special Review Board, also known as the Tower Commission. Mark Ayers, President, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO Vicky Bailey, Former Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Former IN PUC Commissioner; Former Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs Albert Carnesale, Chancellor Emeritus and Professor, UCLA Pete V. Domenici, Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; former U.S. Senator (R-NM) Susan Eisenhower, President, Eisenhower Group, Inc. Chuck Hagel, Former U.S. Senator (R-NE) Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute Allison Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University Richard A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution for Science, and former Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ernie Moniz, Professor of Physics and Cecil & Ida Green Distinguished Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Per Peterson, Professor and Chair, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California - Berkeley John Rowe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Exelon Corporation Phil Sharp, President, Resources for the Future
  • Energy Net on 01 Feb 10
     
    "The Commission, led by Lee Hamilton and Brent Scowcroft, will provide recommendations on managing used fuel and nuclear waste washington, D.C. - As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to restarting America's nuclear industry, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the Nation's used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. The Commission is being co-chaired by former Congressman Lee Hamilton and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. In light of the Administration's decision not to proceed with the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, President Obama has directed Secretary Chu to establish the Commission to conduct a comprehensive review of policies for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. The Commission will provide advice and make recommendations on issues including alternatives for the storage, processing, and disposal of civilian and defense spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. "
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Hanford News: FFTF, better Hanford cleanup among public concerns - 0 views

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    "Speakers at a public hearing Tuesday night split their comments between calling for the Fast Flux Test Facility to be saved and worries that proposed cleanup plans for Hanford would not protect the environment and human health. The Department of Energy hearing in Richland kicked off a series of eight meetings in three states to hear public opinion on a wide-ranging draft study that lays out options for cleanup of many areas of the Hanford nuclear reservation. More than 100 people attended. Among the decisions that the Draft Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement recommends are entombing FFTF, emptying 99 percent of radioactive Waste from underground tanks, leaving the emptied tanks in the ground and extending a ban on sending many types of radioactive Waste to Hanford."
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BBC News - Corruption up among China government officials - 0 views

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  • The head of the China National Nuclear Corporation - overseeing the country's nuclear industry - was dismissed and is under investigation over allegations of bid rigging in nuclear power plant construction worth $260m.
  • Energy Net on 11 Jan 10
     
    China's anti-corruption watchdog has said that 106,000 officials were found guilty of corruption in 2009, an increase of 2.5% on the year before. The number of government officials caught embezzling more than one million yuan ($146,000; £91,000) jumped by 19% over the year. The government says the increase is due to better supervision of the problem.
  • Energy Net on 11 Jan 10
     
    China's anti-corruption watchdog has said that 106,000 officials were found guilty of corruption in 2009, an increase of 2.5% on the year before. The number of government officials caught embezzling more than one million yuan ($146,000; £91,000) jumped by 19% over the year. The government says the increase is due to better supervision of the problem.
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Energy park at Hanford holds promise for powering vit plant - Mid-Columbia News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 11 Jan 10
     
    A proposed energy park at Hanford could include piped natural gas, a biofuel plant and acres of solar panels that may help power the vitrification plant and one day produce commercial power. Gary Petersen, vice president of Hanford programs for the Tri-City Development Council, told Benton County commissioners Wednesday that Cascade Natural Gas has proposed piping natural gas to the future site, which could supply a significant amount of the energy needed to power the vitrification plant being built there. Two Cascade pipelines could be used. One would have to cross the Yakima River and the other would have to cross the Columbia. Natural gas is one of four proposals being eyed to offset energy consumption by the massive plant being built to turn some of Hanford's worst waste into a stable glass form.
  • Energy Net on 11 Jan 10
     
    A proposed energy park at Hanford could include piped natural gas, a biofuel plant and acres of solar panels that may help power the vitrification plant and one day produce commercial power. Gary Petersen, vice president of Hanford programs for the Tri-City Development Council, told Benton County commissioners Wednesday that Cascade Natural Gas has proposed piping natural gas to the future site, which could supply a significant amount of the energy needed to power the vitrification plant being built there. Two Cascade pipelines could be used. One would have to cross the Yakima River and the other would have to cross the Columbia. Natural gas is one of four proposals being eyed to offset energy consumption by the massive plant being built to turn some of Hanford's worst waste into a stable glass form.
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New rules take effect for ill Hanford workers - Mid-Columbia News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news - 0 views

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    Hundreds more ill Hanford workers or their survivors now should be eligible for $150,000 compensation from the federal government. A special exposure cohort, a ruling that eases compensation rules for more Hanford workers, took effect this weekend after clearing a congressional waiting period. Under the new rule, workers in any part of Hanford who may have been exposed to radiation should automatically qualify for compensation if they worked for 250 days from Oct. 1, 1943, through June 30, 1972, and developed certain cancers. The list of cancers includes more than 20 that have been linked to radiation exposure by medical research.
  • Energy Net on 11 Jan 10
     
    Hundreds more ill Hanford workers or their survivors now should be eligible for $150,000 compensation from the federal government. A special exposure cohort, a ruling that eases compensation rules for more Hanford workers, took effect this weekend after clearing a congressional waiting period. Under the new rule, workers in any part of Hanford who may have been exposed to radiation should automatically qualify for compensation if they worked for 250 days from Oct. 1, 1943, through June 30, 1972, and developed certain cancers. The list of cancers includes more than 20 that have been linked to radiation exposure by medical research.
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Hanford News: More Hanford downwinder claims will go to trial - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 25 Jan 10
     
    "More Hanford downwinders could be going to trial to have their claims heard in a 19-year-old case. Almost 2,000 plaintiffs have pending claims, many of them asserting that past emissions of radioactive material from the Hanford nuclear reservation were carried downwind and caused cancer or other thyroid disease. Some people also believe they developed other cancers from eating contaminated fish. On Wednesday, Judge William Fremming Nielsen of Eastern Washington District Federal Court in Spokane said that he would select 30 of the claims for hypothyroidism, or underactive thyroids, to proceed to trial as soon as October. In addition, about 32 claims filed for thyroid cancer will be considered for settlement with the help of a mediator."
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Vit plant mixing hazards raises worries - Tri-City Herald - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 25 Jan 10
     
    "Inadequate mixing of some radioactive wastes at the Hanford vitrification plant could cause a criticality or a build-up of flammable gas that could cause an explosion, according to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. But the Department of Energy believes the problem can be resolved. It initiated tests on the mixing system planned for parts of the vitrification plant after a panel of experts in 2006 identified it as one of 28 technical issues that needed to be studied. It's the last major and complex issue to be resolved for the plant, which is half-completed. DOE has been testing the mixing systems at the M3 Mixing Test Platform installed at Mid-Columbia Engineering near the Hanford nuclear reservation. It expects to have testing completed in April, including confirming any modifications that need to be done to the mixing system. That's ahead of a legally binding Tri-Party Agreement deadline to have the work completed in June."
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DOE looking for risky remains at Hanford | Tri-City Herald - 0 views

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    "Work has begun with federal economic stimulus money to solve the mystery of what's buried in one the most hazardous burial grounds of the Hanford nuclear reservation. The 618-10 Burial Ground "received some nasty stuff from the labs in the 300 Area where they did everything done at Hanford but at a small scale," said Larry Gadbois, scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, a regulator on the project. The six-acre burial ground includes 94 pipes buried vertically that allowed trucks to drive up and quickly drop radioactive and chemical waste underground. Most were made by removing the tops and bottoms of 55-gallon drums and then welding five of them together to form pipes. The 618-10 Burial Ground also includes 23 trenches. Many records of what they contain were destroyed in the early 1990s."
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Hanford News: DOE to take public comment on draft Hanford study - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 18 Jan 10
     
    "The Department of Energy will hear public comments at a Jan. 26 meeting in Richland on a wide-ranging draft study that lays the groundwork for cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation for decades to come. It's one of eight meetings planned in the Northwest. The Richland meeting at the Red Lion Hanford House will start with an open house at 6 p.m. followed by presentations by DOE and the Washington State Department of Ecology at 7 p.m. Public comment then will be heard until 10 p.m. Other meetings will be Feb. 2 in Boise; Feb. 9 in Hood River, Ore., and Feb. 10 in Portland. A Seattle meeting is being rescheduled and three more meetings will be added to the list."
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Hanford employment records verified for ill worker program - Mid-Columbia News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 25 Jan 10
     
    "The old Hanford records vault in Richland is being used for sleuthing these days. Since the federal government approved a program to compensate ill Hanford workers in 2000, a staff that now numbers more than 10 has been assigned to help compile Hanford information. The first step for most applicants for the program is verifying they worked at the Hanford nuclear reservation and then when and where. It's not as easy as it might sound. Hanford seems to have both too many records and, yet, also not enough. Department of Energy and contractor workers have 25,000 boxes of Hanford records stored in Richland near the Federal Building. And another 100,000 boxes are stored in Seattle at the Federal Record Center."
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HANFORD: Compensation changes for ill workers to be explained - Breaking News - Yahoo | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 08 Mar 10
     
    "Three meetings have been scheduled in Kennewick to explain changes in a compensation program for ill Hanford nuclear reservation workers or their survivors. A recent change to the program should make more Hanford workers, retirees or their survivors eligible for $150,000 compensation and coverage of some medical expenses related to cancer or certain lung diseases. The meetings also will give an overview of the entire program, which provides compensation for illnesses caused by radiation or hazardous chemicals. Staff from the Hanford Resource Center will be available to help people file claims. The Department of Labor meetings are planned at 7 p.m. March 16 and at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. March 17 at the Red Lion Hotel, N. 2201 Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick. "
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Washington state to intervene in Yucca Mountain case - Monday, March 1, 2010 | 7:09 p.m. - Las Vegas Sun - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 08 Mar 10
     
    "Washington state announced Monday it would intervene in the federal government's decision to withdraw its license application for a Nevada nuclear Waste repository. The move marks the latest show of the state's angst over the Obama administration's decision to abandon the Yucca Mountain project as an option for permanently storing high-level radioactive Waste. Waste and spent nuclear fuel from south-central Washington's Tri-Cities, site of the highly contaminated Hanford nuclear reservation and the Northwest's only commercial nuclear plant, had long been intended to go to Yucca Mountain."
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Politics trumps common sense in nuclear waste site reversal | Yakima Herald-Republic Online - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 08 Mar 10
     
    "Mixing politics with radioactive waste is never a good idea. But that's what President Barack Obama did when he decided to end construction of the nation's nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev. In an effort to block that move, three Tri-City business leaders last week sued Obama in federal court, claiming he violated the law when declaring Yucca Mountain would no longer be under consideration. The lawsuit claims that when Congress named Yucca Mountain in 2002 as the nation's repository, certain steps were required to be followed under the Nuclear waste Policy Act. But that didn't happen when Obama abruptly pulled the plug, the Tri-City business leaders argue."
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Sick downwinder seeks trial - Spokesman.com - March 14, 2010 - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 21 Mar 10
     
    "With the fingers of her right hand, Deborah Clark presses firmly on a gaping surgical hole in her neck. It's the only way she can speak. The words that emerge are painful. Clark, 60, has late-stage thyroid cancer, which has stilled her voice, stolen her energy and spread clusters of tumors to her lungs. The former hospital reimbursement specialist hasn't been able to work since 2004."
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Bannister Contamination Documented in Homes - NBC Action News KSHB-TV 41 - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 08 Mar 10
     
    "The arrival of men with a Geiger counter, rubber suits and face masks at the homes of former Bannister Federal Complex workers marked the only known residential contamination incident and a health mystery that's lasted two decades. An NBC Action News review of government documents and interviews with witnesses indicates government workers went to not only Ivory Mae Thomas' home, but actually searched the homes of four workers, and found contamination during a 1989 incident where a radioactive material got outside the plant."
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