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Re: Hanford Explosion



At 04:02 PM 5/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Today on NPR a segment discussed an explosion at Hanford.  From the 
>newsreport it sounds like something in either the plutonium finishing plant 
>or the PUREX facility.
>
>Does anyone had additional information?
>
>thanks
>
>paul charp (pac4@cdc.gov)
>

I was the finishing plant but it had not been used for that ourpose for ten
years.  The news reports keep repeating there was no release of radiation
over and over again.  Not sure what caused the explosion.>