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The cybernetic apocalypse. Hanford network near financial downfall The Hanford Health Information Network may have met the budget problems that will doom the agency, after repeatedly finding money to keep it alive in recent years. Plume creates winter wonder Plant 2 bells ring, are you listening? All systems go for NW power industry If the millennium bug were a punting unit in football, the power industry would be Deion Sanders back to receive. Hanford set for big night The Y2K bug will bite Hanford somewhere. A plant by any other name ... And you thought Energy Northwest was all finished with name changes. PNNL helps ex-Soviet scientists refocus weapons skills Former Soviet scientists who once developed biological weapons for use against military foes now are learning peaceful and commercial purposes for their skills. Bechtel earns "outstanding" rating again Bechtel Hanford Inc. has topped its own performance marks again. Tank waste transfer finished Hanford's most dangerous tank of radioactive waste has been partially emptied and the waste diluted - progress officials hope means the end to years of troubles that have brought it national scrutiny. Energy Northwest to get $30 million in settlement Energy Northwest has renegotiated its 1992 settlement with General Electric and will receive a $30 million cash payment. PFP cleanup could fall on ex-contractor Westinghouse Former Hanford contractor Westinghouse could take on one of its old roles at the nuclear reservation, helping manage cleanup of the Plutonium Finishing Plant and the work there to convert tons of scrap plutonium to safer forms. DOE praises PNNL The top grades Pacific Northwest National Laboratory received from the Department of Energy Monday came with a concrete show of the agency's approval: the promise of $6.8 million. 'Root cause' of Hanford acid spray released The lack of a metal brace led to an Oct. 15 accident in which sulfuric acid sprayed from a cracked pipe and burned a Hanford worker. Fluor may hire 530 workers in 2000 Fluor Daniel could hire up to 530 people in 2000, mostly to handle increased work at the K Basins and Plutonium Finishing Plant. Hanford inefficiencies cost $1 million, report says Hanford could have used analytical labs more cost-effectively in recent years, a recent Department of Energy inspector general's report concluded. Critics cry foul in DOE's handling of Hanford Critics have accused the Department of Energy of shrugging its shoulders at dealing with Hanford's underground contaminants seeping into the Columbia River. Hanford budget still less than hoped It appears Hanford's fiscal 2000 budget will be bigger than the 1999 budget, but also smaller than what the Department of Energy requested. DOE lifts compliance order against Fluor Fluor Daniel Hanford has fixed the quality control problems that led to a $330,000 fine earlier this year, the Department of Energy announced Monday. Critique of Hanford thyroid study due today SPOKANE - A federal advisory panel has finished its critique of a controversial study that found no adverse health effects from Cold War radiation releases from the Hanford nuclear reservation. 2nd chronic beryllium disease diagnosed A second Hanford worker has been diagnosed with chronic beryllium disease, according to a new group formed to raise awareness of the illness among site employees. Los Alamos scientist arrested, charged with taking nuclear secrets ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - After years of being under suspicion as a spy for China, computer scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged Friday with removing nuclear secrets from highly secure computers at the Los Alamos weapons lab. More nuclear waste at Hanford raises red flags It's the nuclear version of trading Ken Griffey Jr. Strontium not harming salmon, PNNL study shows Hanford strontium seeps into the Columbia River near H Reactor at a concentration that is about 200,000 times less than what would harm baby salmon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory study results show. Congress holds fate of glassification contract The big jump has Mike Lawrence nibbling his fingernails. DOE wants Hanford for waste site Hanford and the Nevada Test Site have been recommended to receive low-level and mixed low-level radioactive wastes from most of the rest of the Department of Energy's sites. |
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