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• Hanford cleanup safety doubts raised

  August 14, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 LOS ANGELES – The Energy Department has asserted that Bechtel Corp. underplayed safety risks from equipment it is installing at the nation’s largest nuclear waste cleanup project, according to government … 5

• Hanford considered for national mercury storage

  July 7, 2009 in Region The Hanford nuclear reservation is one of seven sites the Energy Department is considering as a national, long-term storage site for mercury.

• Chu hearing forecasts new focus in energy policy

  January 14, 2009 in Nation/World, Green Government/policy on Page A10 WASHINGTON – The Nobel Prize winner nominated to head the Energy Department said Tuesday that he would focus the agency in part on global warming, a sharp departure from the …