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Forced cuts may hit hard at Hanford
Pasco :: WA :: USA | 4 months ago
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The cuts are estimated to affect up to 4,700 of Hanford's almost 9,000 employees, either with forced time off or, in some cases, layoffs. The Department of Energy Hanford Richland Operations Office needs to cut $78 million from its spending. The
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Sen. Murray presses Steven Chu about confidence in vit plant technical issues
Pasco :: WA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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More will be known about how well the plant's waste mixing system will work, a key technical issue at the $12.2 billion plant, when more testing is completed, Chu told Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., at a hearing of the Energy and Water Development
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CREHST museum faces risk of closing
Hanford :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The entire museum is in danger of closing within a year because of a drastic cutback in federal money to the museum, said Ellen Low, museum executive director. Department of Energy money, but that has been cut in the fiscal year that started Oct. 1
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Get job done Get job done at Hanford, DOE undersecretary says
Kennewick :: WA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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The Department of Energy undersecretary newly responsible for Hanford environmental cleanup has a bias for getting the job done, he said Wednesday after his first tour of the nuclear reservation. That's the case whether it's starting operations at
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DOE undersecretary to make first Hanford visit in new role
Oregon City :: OR :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Thomas D'Agostino, the undersecretary for nuclear security and administrator, will visit the Tri-Cities to speak at the 2011 Integrated Safety Management Champions Workshop in Kennewick, which is expected to draw 1,200 people from across the nation.
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Hanford regulators will postpone some cleanup deadlines
Albuquerque :: NM :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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The changes are expected to allow work to continue to demolish the Plutonium Finishing Plant, which the Department of Energy heard during public comments should be a priority. The new plan also retains the focus on completing cleanup along the
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Independent review of vit plant safety culture under way
Pasco :: WA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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DOE said then that it would join its contractor Bechtel National to sponsor an independent, executive-level assessment by a group of experts in the nuclear industry with experience in Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspections or evaluations by the
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Delay proposed in work to treat waste
Hanford :: CA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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That's not sitting well with the state of Washington, which less than a year ago agreed to extend the deadline for operating the Hanford vitrification plant from 2011 to 2019, but required concessions including a a timely start to all waste treatment.
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New money for pay increases available at PNNL, Hanford
Pasco :: WA :: USA | 2 years ago
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The freeze was intended to be in line with a two-year pay freeze for workers employed directly by the federal government, including workers at the Department of Energy's Hanford Office of River Protection and Richland Operations Office. However,
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DOE names Scott Samuelson as new Hanford manager
Hanford :: CA :: USA | 2 years ago
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He will share oversight of Hanford nuclear reservation environmental cleanup with Matt McCormick, the manager of the second DOE Hanford office, the Richland Operations Office. Samuelson has been serving as the acting director of the Office of the
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