Wednesday, August 23, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Energy secretary visits
Hanford reservation
R I C H L A N D , Wa s h .
(AP) — Energy Secretary
Rick Perry made his first
visit Tuesday to the Hanford
Nuclear Reservation, which
has been plagued by a series
of problems.
Perry kicked off his tour
at McNary Dam near the Tri-
Cities on Monday. Tuesday he
toured the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory and
other Hanford sites near
Richland.
“I’m proud to be a part of
your team,” Perry told work-
ers at the national laboratory.
“Your work saves lives.”
Hanford for decades made
plutonium for nuclear weap-
ons, and now is engaged in a
massive cleanup of nuclear
wastes that is expected to take
decades and cost $100 billion.
The Tri-City Herald
reported that the Trump
Administration has pro-
posed cutting $120 mil-
lion from Hanford’s budget
next year, but the House and
Senate budget proposals have
restored a large portion of
those cuts.
In the first of two high-
profile incidents this year,
thousands of Hanford work-
ers were evacuated May 9
when the roof of a 1950s rail
tunnel storing a lethal mix of
nuclear waste collapsed. Tests
showed no radiation was
released into the environment.
On June 8, demolition
work at a 1940s plutonium
plant sent 350 workers seek-
ing cover inside. Radiation
was emitted but not deemed
at a level harmful to
people.
In addition, vapors for sev-
eral years have escaped from
underground nuclear waste
storage tanks at Hanford,
making dozens of workers
sick. The cause has not been
determined.
The tunnel collapse
prompted a group of Congress
members from northwestern
states to demand the federal
Government Accountability
Office review Hanford
cleanup work. The law-
makers said they were con-
cerned about the safety of
workers, the public and the
environment.
On Monday, Perry visited
nearby McNary Dam along
the Columbia River.
Perry was noncommittal
when asked about a proposal
in the president’s budget
to privatize the Bonneville
Power Administration trans-
mission grid.
“Hydro is going to con-
tinue to play a very important
role,” Perry said.
Northwest lawmakers
have criticized the proposal
to sell the transmission grid,
saying it will raise rates for
consumers and hurt reliability
in rural areas. The BPA mar-
kets electric power generated
by Columbia River system
dams.
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“new” Black Butte Trail that
starts at the lower trailhead
where we had originally met
that morning. So, we looked
for and, sure enough, even-
tually hit that trail crossing,
which was very familiar
territory for us. Just before
(south of) that spot, so not
where most people travel, we
spotted the biggest (by far)
cedar tree that I’ve ever seen
in the Sisters area. See if you
can find it!
In the meantime, I thought
I had sucked my camelback
pack dry — which had never
happened before. But, when
we stopped for a final snack
break, I discovered that I
wasn’t exactly running on
empty. I still had quite a bit of
ice left in the water bladder,
so we chewed on ice cubes at
our last rest stop!
From that point, it was just
a matter of choosing which of
the many optional routes to
take from there. If you decide
to do a circumnavigation of
Black Butte, I’ll bet that you
can do it a lot more efficiently
than we did, especially if —
unlike us — you decide on
that course of action before
you leave. The “big” map of
the Sisters Ranger District
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When we made it back to
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PHOTO BY CRAIG F. EISENBEIS
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