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Fluor Hanford will miss today's legal deadline to remove all of the K West Basin's spent nuclear fuel by about one week. Director of PNNL bids adieu Lura Powell would not have taken the job as director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory if she had realized how much and how difficult the travel demands would be, she said. $108 million Hanford fire suit filed More than 100 parties filed a lawsuit Monday against the federal government, seeking $108 million for damages resulting from the Hanford fire of 2000. Observing 60: Fateful flight found site for secret war project Sixty years ago today, a small military observation plane flew over the Horse Heaven Hills and along the Columbia River. It was an unusually warm day with a chinook wind blowing under sunny skies. Hanford's natural assets made it a natural for war effort Editor's note: This story first appeared in the Dec. 22, 1992, Herald. Franklin Matthias died Dec. 3, 1993, at the age of 85. Battelle given outstanding rating for running PNNL Battelle received its fifth consecutive outstanding rating Friday from the Department of Energy for operating Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, even though it lost points for financial management. TRIDEC, Oliver square off over ethics Benton County Commissioner Claude Oliver is not helping restart Hanford's Fast Flux Test Facility by questioning the ethics of Tri-City Economic Development Council board members, Bill Martin, president of the group, said Friday. CH2M Hill testing sprinkler device in waste tank It looks like an upside-down lawn sprinkler. Radioactive waste agreement reached OLYMPIA -- Washington won't contest a plan by the federal government to send some transuranic wastes to Hanford if the state and Department of Energy can agree by March 1 on how to deal with Hanford's solid radioactive wastes. Support for FFTF at issue The Tri-City organization whose middle name used to be nuclear is growing tepid in its support for keeping a Hanford research reactor alive, charges one of the most zealous backers of saving the Fast Flux Test Facility. Thompson Mechanical wins $4 million Hanford contract Thompson Mechanical Contractors Inc., a Richland-based subsidiary of Zellweger Luwa Group, has won a contract worth about $4 million to provide a cooling tower for the Hanford Waste Treatment and Isolation Plant. Benton calls for FFTF study Benton County contends recent changes in the Fast Flux Test Facility's situation bolsters its legal case calling for a full environmental impact study before the reactor can be shut down. Fluor plan beats DOE goals It would take $623 million to completely shut down the Fast Flux test Facility by a proposed 2013 target date. River cleanup contract delayed Awarding a cleanup contract for the Columbia River through Hanford has been delayed until early 2003. FFTF backers react to Energy NW chief's opinion They don't say so in fairy tales, but the good guy doesn't always win. Proteome topic of PNNL meeting this week With the decoding of the human genome completed, Richland scientists are working to decode the proteome -- the proteins that make our bodies function properly and make us who we are. Hanford Advisory Board wants more radioactive waste information PORTLAND -- Not enough information has been made available for the public to intelligently comment on Hanford's plans to get radioactive wastes out of its tanks, Hanford Advisory Board members said Thursday. Glassification plant needs 5 melters, board says PORTLAND -- Hanford's proposed radioactive waste glassification complex needs at least five melters, not the four now planned, the Hanford Advisory Board decided Thursday. Vit plant ready to go above ground Two huge 21-foot-deep holes in central Hanford filled with a jungle of steel rebar are ants' nests of activity as hundreds of construction workers build the lower levels of two plants designed to encase radioactive wastes in glass. PNNL gets 1,000th patent Frustrated by the sound quality of his high-fidelity system, Richland researcher Jim Russell sat down on a Saturday afternoon in 1965 to dream up a better technology. Cleanup deadlines moved up The Department of Energy and Fluor Hanford have renegotiated the deadlines and fees in their Hanford cleanup contract. Isotope program at PNNL picking up steam The isotope program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is making a comeback, turning to private industry for contracts rather than the Department of Energy. Water near 300 Area deemed mostly safe Hanford has taken its best look in decades at shoreline contamination along the 300 Area, setting a baseline to track future pollution in that region. Hanford begins transferring fuel Hanford transferred the first cask of spent nuclear fuel from K East Basin to K West Basin on Monday, starting a fuel juggling act aimed at trimming costs at the high-profile project. PNNL-WSU Tri-Cities lab pitched Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has given a new bioproducts processing and sciences laboratory proposed for Washington State University Tri-Cities a two-year head start. |
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