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The 10-year contract covers work at the Hanford site tank farms, where 56 million gallons of radioactive waste are stored in underground tanks, and operation of the vitrification plant to treat ...
Downwinders were individuals and communities, in the United States, in the intermountain West between the Cascade and Rocky Mountain ranges primarily in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah but also in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho who were exposed to radioactive contamination or nuclear fallout from atmospheric or underground nuclear weapons testing, and nuclear accidents.
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In April, DOE awarded a $45 billion contract with some work that could extend for 15 years to Hanford Tank Waste Operations and Closure, called, H2C, which is a joint venture of BWXT Technical ...
A mass tort lawsuit was brought by two thousand Hanford downwinders. [200] In 2005 two of six plaintiffs who went to trial were awarded $500,000 in damages. [241] The DOE resolved the final cases in October 2015, paying out more than $60 million in legal fees and $7 million in damages. [200] Hanford storage tanks in 2014
The Hanford contract expires this year, but the new owner plans to bid on the upcoming contract. Calif. firm buys Hanford contractor serving 8,000 workers after alleged fraud settlement Skip to ...
Areas covered by the Radiation Exposure Compensation Program. The United States Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) is a federal statute implemented in 1990, set to expire in July 2024, providing for the monetary compensation of people, including atomic veterans, who contracted cancer and a number of other specified diseases as a direct result of their exposure to atmospheric nuclear ...
In May 2020, DOE awarded a 10 year, $13 billion contract to manage Hanford tank waste to a team headed by BWXT and Fluor with primary subcontractors Intera and DBD. It did not include the ...