“Hanford workers, and all others working with dangerous radioactive waste, remain protected.”
“The federal government has not challenged this new law. If they do, we will defend these protections all the way back up to the Supreme Court again if we have to,” Ferguson said.
Hanford no longer makes plutonium, but some 10,000 workers are involved in cleaning up a massive volume of nuclear waste that was left behind. The dangerous work is expected to take decades. The Biden administration has not challenged the new law, nor has it indicated it plans to, Ferguson said.
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