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A second legal challenge to the award of a $45 billion contract for environmental cleanup work at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington has been denied.. U.S. Judge Marian Blank Horn ...
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 ...
The contract, awarded at the end of 2018, has a base period of three years and two option periods of two years each. It currently is on its first option period at Hanford, which ends Dec. 31, 2023.
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.
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
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The Hanford Engineer Works (HEW) was a nuclear production complex in Benton County, Washington, established by the United States federal government in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. It built and operated the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor.
Jun. 7—Advocates for New Mexico downwinders and former uranium miners minced no words this week about House leadership not holding a vote to extend a law that provides compensation to people ...