Energy Dept. Spent $8.6M on Seattle Cesium Contamination Cleanup in FY19

摘要

The U.S. Department of Energy spent $8.6 million during the last fiscal year on remediation of a cesium-137 spill at a hospital research facility in Seattle. Remediation is ongoing at the Research and Training Building for the University of Washington’s Harborview Medical Center, according to Al Stotts, a spokesman for DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The agency contracted the work to Perma-Fix Environmental Services.