hanford cleanup

Hanford Board Says Proposed Cleanup Deadline Too Extreme
Hanford Board Says Proposed Cleanup Deadline Too Extreme
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Hanford Advisory board says a proposed change in deadlines to clean up radioactive waste in the reservation is too extreme. The Tri-City Herald reports that the U.S. Department of Energy has proposed changing 64 deadlines in the Tri-Party Agreement that governs the Hanford cleanup, but the board says the new deadlines would not speed up work and would instead delay some
White House Proposes Cutting Hanford Cleanup Budget
White House Proposes Cutting Hanford Cleanup Budget
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Obama administration wants to spend less money on the ongoing cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation next year. The Tri-City Herald reports that the White House called for an overall decrease in money spent for cleanup of defense sites like Hanford in its federal budget request for fiscal year 2017. A Dep...