DOE Issues Hefty Fine Over Nuke Leaks At Knolls

摘要

The Energy Department last week proposed an$412,500 fine against Washington Group InternationalnInc. for failing last September to take precautionsnagainst the dispersal of radiological dust while rippingndown a mothballed waste processing building at DOE’snKnolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Sisakayuna, N.Y.—none of two major contamination incidents at the site lastnfall that the Environmental Protection Agency continuesnto investigate