Cleanup & Remediation

Stop Work Order Issued at Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant

By Photo of Staff Reports

A stop work order was issued at the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant after workers learned that plutonium and americium were found in high-volume air samples collected at the Energy Department facility’s Rattlesnake Barricade.
The samples were collected…

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