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PORTLAND - The Hanford Advisory Board rejected on Friday claims by the U.S. Department of Energy that it is too heavy with special interests, is inefficient and needs to represent more people. HAB questions postponing decision on waste melters PORTLAND - The Hanford Advisory Board is antsy about the Department of Energy postponing a decision on whether to add extra low-activity waste melters to Hanford's tank waste glassification complex. DOE to phase out exams for ex-workers PORTLAND - Federally funded medical exams on former Department of Energy workers will be phased out and replaced with a new program by Sept. 30, said a medical researcher involved in the current project. Hanford's Putnam dealings in doubt The committee handling about $750 million in Hanford workers' 401(k) retirement accounts will not immediately cut its ties with Putnam Investments, a mutual fund company that faces fraud allegations from securities regulators. Tank waste treatment plan may be cheaper It's a $20 billion question. Oliver says TRIDEC was unethical Benton County Commissioner Claude Oliver charged Thursday that Tri-City Economic Development Council board members didn't act ethically when they voted last week to support decommissioning of a Hanford research reactor. Fluor Hanford introduces new president Fluor Hanford's sixth president will bring sought-after expertise in commercial practices, but no background in nuclear cleanup, to his new job. New Mexico muddles DOE plan New Mexico opposes the Department of Energy sending any reclassified radioactive tank wastes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. Hanford beats transuranic deadline Hanford contractors already had beat a legal deadline to start removing buried radioactive transuranic wastes before the ink was dry on a settlement reached last week. Oliver says Benton should cut off TRIDEC Benton County should withhold its annual $25,000 payment to the Tri-City Industrial Development Council because it is out of touch with the community, Commissioner Claude Oliver said Friday. State, DOE resolve dispute A long-running fight between state and federal agencies over Hanford's chemical and transuranic wastes has been mostly resolved, they announced Friday. GN Northern puzzled by DOE's investigation The president of a Yakima-based Hanford subcontractor says he cannot figure out why the Department of Energy's Inspector General's office executed a search warrant on his business. TRIDEC backs DOE move to shut FFTF The Tri-City Industrial Development Council's board passed a resolution Thursday to support Department of Energy efforts to shut down Hanford's Fast Flux Test Facility. Reactor begins making bomb material KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant has resumed operation - making it the only commercial nuclear station in the United States producing electricity for homes and factories and isotopes for bombs. DOE investigating former vit plant subcontractor The Department of Energy's Inspector General's office is investigating a former Hanford glassification plant subcontractor. GAO document criticizes DOE for cleanup bid criteria The Department of Energy picked a less realistic bid package when it chose Washington Closure Co. to manage Hanford river shore corridor cleanup, a newly released federal General Accounting Office document says. Activist claims radiation rising A maverick scientist who once sent radioactive jam to Washington's governor claims radiation is on the rise near salmon spawning areas in the Columbia River. Groups willing to mediate with DOE The winners of a lawsuit that defeated the Department of Energy's attempt to claim broad, radioactive waste reclassification powers say they are willing to take the dispute to a mediator. FFTF supporters launch 'Woman to Woman' drive Shirley Hankins and Wanda Munn say they've got their tennis shoes on and are ready for a campaign to restart Hanford's dormant nuclear test reactor. Fluor Hanford to lay off 80 workers Fluor Hanford Inc. announced Friday that it will lay off 80 people in the near future, adding to the approximately 320 employees who have involuntarily lost their jobs this year. DOE hopes to have FFTF completely closed by 2012 The Department of Energy hopes to finish closing off Hanford's Fast Flux Test Facility by 2012 -- a tentative date that easily could change. Cantwell asks DOE to pay up U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell has asked the Department of Energy to pay a 10-year-old debt of $6.8 million to Washington state. Federal judge weighs fate of Hanford explosion suit A federal judge is considering whether a lawsuit filed by 13 former Plutonium Finishing Plant workers should be sent to a mediator, and whether the suit should be dismissed against Kadlec Medical Center and an emergency room doctor. Fluor seeks more time for K Basin work Fluor Hanford has asked the Department of Energy for an extra 10 months to remove radioactive sludge from the K West Basin. DOE to spend $1.4 billion for 'supplemental technologies' The Department of Energy is aiming to spend about $1.4 billion on "supplemental technologies" for treating Hanford's radioactive tank wastes through 2028. |
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