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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 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 ...
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
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 ...
Hanford was a small agricultural community in Benton County, Washington, United States. It and White Bluffs were depopulated in 1943 in order to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site. The town was located in what is now the "100F" sector of the site.
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Cornelius Holgate Hanford (April 21, 1849 – March 2, 1926) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Washington and the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, and was the only Judge to serve in the District of Washington and the first to serve in the Western District of Washington.
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 ...