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Roughly $2 billion for Hanford
Money spent to clean up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site would increase slightly under the Obama administration's proposed budget.
Money spent to clean up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site would increase slightly under the Obama administration's proposed budget.
The federal government spends roughly $2 billion each year to rid south-central Washington's Hanford nuclear reservation of radioactive and toxic waste.
In fiscal year 2009, the Department of Energy is spending $2.067 billion at the site. The president's 2010 budget would spend $2.092 billion.
The department's Office of River Protection, which is emptying underground waste tanks and building a plant to treat that waste, would see $88 million more money. Its Richland operations office would get about $64 million less to handle the remaining cleanup.
Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington called the proposed budget a "nonstarter" in a statement Thursday and pledged to work to get more money for Hanford.
The 586-square-mile site also is receiving $2 billion in stimulus money for cleanup there.
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