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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

• Waste shipments concern Andrus

  January 20, 2011 in City on Page A6 BOISE – Former Democratic Gov. Cecil Andrus said he’s troubled by a new deal that would allow even small amounts of nuclear waste to be shipped to eastern Idaho. Andrus …

• Hanford workers digging up hazardous wastes

  August 27, 2010 in Region Work is nearly complete to help identify the type and amount of radioactive and hazardous materials at the 618-10 Burial Ground, one of the most hazardous sites on the Hanford …

• Washington sues to keep Yucca alive

  April 14, 2010 in City on Page A6 YAKIMA – Washington state filed suit Tuesday to stop the federal government from permanently abandoning the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, marking the latest clash in a long-standing dispute over … 1

• Analysis warns Hanford cleanup would take decades

  February 10, 2010 in Region PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal proposal for cleaning up the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site says radioactive contaminants from the sprawling Hanford nuclear reservation could threaten the Columbia River for …

• Editorial: Abandoning waste site undoes years of planning

  September 10, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 In 1987 – a full 42 years after the onset of the Manhattan Project – Congress settled on Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the permanent repository for more than 14,000 … 1

• Workers dig up contaminated nests at Hanford

  June 12, 2009 in City on Page A11 YAKIMA – Workers at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site are conducting a sting operation to dig up radioactive wasp nests that could number in the thousands. Mud dauber wasps …

• Hanford project receives cleanup stimulus

  April 1, 2009 in City on Page A6 RICHLAND – The Department of Energy plans to spend about $2 billion in stimulus money to speed some of the cleanup at Washington’s highly contaminated Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Hanford will …

• Hanford to receive nearly $2B for cleanup

  March 31, 2009 in Region RICHLAND — The Department of Energy plans to spend about $2 billion in stimulus money to speed up cleanup at south-central Washington’s highly contaminated Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

• Court upholds state’s waste authority

  March 11, 2009 in City on Page A6 Washington state has authority to regulate mixed hazardous and transuranic wastes buried at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The decision upholds an …

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  Nuclear waste site scrapped

  March 6, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – For two decades, a ridge of volcanic rock 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas known as Yucca Mountain has been the sole focus of government plans to store …

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  Hanford cleanup faces changes, new challenges

  January 25, 2009 in Business on Page E1 RICHLAND, Wash. – Each year, the federal government spends roughly $2 billion to rid the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site of toxic and radioactive waste. Now, winds of change are …

• Radioactive Water Leaked From N Reactor But ‘There Is No Health Hazard,’ Says Cleanup Spokesman

  January 9, 1998 in City on Page B5 More than 36,000 gallons of water contaminated with radioactivity leaked from a nuclear weapons reactor at Hanford, a federal contractor said Thursday. The water leaked from a filtration system inside …

• Hanford Wastes Reach Aquifer, Studies Confirm

  November 26, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 New studies confirm what some Hanford scientists have known for nearly two years: Dangerous waste from Hanford’s old tank farms has reached ground water deep beneath the 560-square-mile nuclear reservation. …

• State Pushes Feds To Empty Nuclear Tank Ecology Department Gives U.S. One Year To Start Removing Hanford Waste

  October 16, 1997 in City on Page B3 The Washington Ecology Department formally denied Wednesday a federal request for more time to start removing boiling radioactive wastes from a Hanford storage tank. Unofficially, the state gave the U.S. …

• Nuke Waste Could Kill Storage Plan

  September 12, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A5 Plutonium found in a water well a mile from the site of a 1969 nuclear weapons test has sparked new debate over storing the nation’s radioactive waste at a proposed …

• Inel To Remove Plume From Stack

  August 18, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A6 Treating liquid radioactive waste at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory sends up a signature orange plume. There is no requirement to remove the nitrogen oxides coloring the plume …

• Group Says Worker Safety Ignored At Hanford Report Says Workers Exposed To Risk During Venting Procedure At Tank

  August 12, 1997 in City on Page B2 Energy Department officials ignored worker safety when venting an underground tank with chronic vapor problems, a watchdog group alleges in a report issued Monday. Energy Department officials said they are …

• Corporate Welfare Poses Nuclear Threat

  June 5, 1997 in City on Page B6 The secretive, corrupt, accident-plagued, taxpayer-subsidized industry that created Hanford’s radioactive nightmare has not died. It was only taking a nap. Today, while Americans concentrate on Paula Jones, the nuclear processing …

• Nuclear Fuel Rods Found Stored Improperly

  March 23, 1997 in City on Page B10 Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory officials have discovered eight nuclear fuel rods stored improperly at the Test Reactor Area. The rods, about 37 inches long and 1 inch in …

• Batt Adds Clout To N-Waste Fight Governor On Tour, Defending His Deal With Federal Government

  November 2, 1996 in Idaho on Page B5 Gov. Phil Batt on Friday took a swipe at one of the leaders of the campaign to void his nuclear waste agreement with the federal government as he began the …

• Sounding Out Idaho Bear-Baiting, Nuclear Initiatives Lose Ground Poll Shows Dramatic Tournaround In Support For Both Measures

  November 2, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Initiatives aimed at banning bearbaiting and overturning Gov. Phil Batt’s nuclear waste agreement both appear headed for defeat, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted for The Idaho Spokesman-Review …

• Nuclear Waste Initiative Proposition 3 Voids Batt’s Deal With Feds

  October 31, 1996 Proposition 3 would void Gov. Phil Batt’s 1995 agreement with the federal government to allow more nuclear waste shipments to Idaho in return for waste cleanup and promises of waste …

• New Lab To Speed Up Hanford Cleanup Opens

  October 17, 1996 in City on Page B3 A new laboratory the government hopes will sharply reduce the $1 trillion bill to clean up the nation’s nuclear weapons mess was dedicated Wednesday by Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary. The …

• Radioactive Soil Finally Leaves Idaho

  October 13, 1996 in Idaho on Page B6 The last of 38 rail cars of radioactively contaminated soil have been shipped from the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory to a licensed disposal site in Tooele County, Utah. The soil …

• Time Is True Test Of Cleanup Effort

  August 11, 1996 in City on Page B6 The government has changed the paperwork, jolted the bureaucracy and redefined the goals. But out in the hot sands of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, some of the most dangerous garbage …

• Inel Allowed To Start Experiment In Stabilizing Spent N-Fuel

  May 17, 1996 in Idaho on Page B5 Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary has given Argonne National Laboratory-West approval to start an experiment aimed at stabilizing spent nuclear fuel for disposal outside Idaho. O’Leary has told Sen. Dirk Kempthorne, …

• New Hanford Plan Topic Of Meeting Tonight

  May 15, 1996 in City on Page B3 A new plan that could leave highly radioactive waste in Hanford’s buried tanks forever will be discussed in Spokane tonight. U.S. Department of Energy and Washington Department of Ecology officials …

• Second Inel Shipment Sent To Utah

  February 26, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A8 The second portion of a low-level radioactive waste shipment from the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory to Envirocare in Tooele County, Utah, for treatment and disposal has been completed. Along with …

• Logic, Safety Hurt By Anti-Nuke Reactors

  February 24, 1996 in City on Page B4 This is the way government works, or doesn’t work, in the latter years of the 20th century. In 1980, when Jimmy Carter was still in the White House, he and …

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