[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Bidding begins for massive $45 billion contract for Hanford [WA] radioactive waste cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel]

Bidding begins for massive $45 billion contract for Hanford radioactive waste cleanup 

BY ANNETTE CARY 
Tri-City Hearald (WA)
OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Department of Energy put out a request for bids this week for a massive new contract at the Hanford nuclear reservation. It is capped at $45 billion for work over 10 years. That’s a significant jump from the $26.5 billion cap of the proposed contract made when DOE gave a first look at its proposed new contract in February.

It released a draft request for proposals then, with bidding solicited now through a final request for proposals. The new contract will include operation of the $17 billion vitrification plant, or Waste Treatment Plant, under construction since 2002 to treat radioactive waste in underground tanks. The plant is expected to begin operating at the end of 2023.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article255180992.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)