Critics decry budget's proposed cuts to Hanford cleanup plan

摘要

Advocates for cleaning up a former nuclear weapons production site in Washington state are outraged thatthe Trump administration is proposing a $700 million budget cut next year.The proposal released Monday by President Trump called for cutting the annual Hanford cleanup budgetfrom about $2.5 billion to about $1.8 billion.Critics say that large a cut is almost certain to delay the cleanup, which is on a legally enforced schedule."This budget proposal would gut the cleanup and goes in the wrong direction," said Tom Carpenter, directorof Hanford Challenge, a Seattle-based watchdog group.