[CPEO-MEF] Hanford (WA) cleanup solicitations

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hanford contracts could steer cleanup for next 10 years

By SHANNON DININNY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
November 30, 2006

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The U.S. Department of Energy is getting ready to bid 
out three contracts at south-central Washington's Hanford nuclear 
reservation - nothing new in terms of the federal government's 
long-running environmental cleanup at the former weapons facility.

But these contracts - worth potentially billions of dollars - would be 
among the largest at Hanford and could steer cleanup at the highly 
contaminated site for the next 10 years.

"Very significant," Todd Martin, chairman of the Hanford Advisory Board, 
said when asked to describe the importance of the new contracts. "These 
will be very important in determining whether cleanup ultimately is 
successful over the next few years."

For 40 years, the Hanford reservation made plutonium for the nation's 
nuclear weapons arsenal, beginning with the top-secret Manhattan Project 
to build an atomic bomb. Today, it is the nation's most contaminated 
nuclear site. Cleanup costs are expected to total as much as $60 
billion, with the work to continue until 2035.

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For the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Hanford_Contracts.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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