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Nearby workers were
evacuated and hundreds of
others farther away were told
to remain indoors, the U.S.
Department of Energy said.
“No action is currently
required for residents of
Benton and Franklin coun-
ties,” the Energy Department
said, referring to the nearly
300,000 residents near the
site. “There is no indication
of a release of contamination
at this point.”
The accident occurred at a
plant known as the Plutonium
Uranium Extraction Facility,
or PUREX, located in the
middle of the 500-square-
mile Hanford site, which is
half the size of Rhode Island,
the Energy Department said.
The collapse was discov-
ered during a routine inspec-
tion, the agency said. It was
not immediately clear why it
happened at the facility with
about 9,000 employees.
Hanford for decades
made plutonium for nuclear
weapons and is now the
nation’s largest depository
of radioactive defense waste,
with about 56 million gallons
of waste, most of it in 177
underground tanks.
As part of a huge, ongoing
cleanup, rail cars full of radio-
active waste were driven into
tunnels and buried, Bradbury
said.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Or-
egon) has been critical of
the Department of Energy’s
cleanup process, which said
in 2015 was mismanaged.
“Today’s cave-in at the
PUREX plant should remind
everyone that the temporary
solutions DOE has used for
decades to contain radioac-
tive waste at Hanford have
limited lifespans, whether
they are underground tunnels
for storing contaminated
equipment or aging steel
tanks filled with high-level
radioactive waste,” Wyden
said in a press release
Tuesday. “The longer it
“The longer it
takes to clean
up Hanford, the
higher the risk will
be to workers, the
public and the
environment.”
— Sen. Ron Wyden
takes to clean up Hanford,
the higher the risk will be to
workers, the public and the
environment.”
The Hanford site was
built during World War II
and made plutonium for most
of the U.S. nuclear arsenal,
including the bomb dropped
on Nagasaki, Japan, at the
end of the war.
The cleanup has been
under way since the 1980s
and costs more than $2 billion
a year. The work is expected
to take decades and cost tens
of billions of dollars.
East Oregonian
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Proposed Oregon tax targets out-
of-state businesses that sell online
Would replace the corporate income tax
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A proposed
statewide tax on businesses’
sales would for the first
time bring in revenue from
out-of-state companies that
sell goods in Oregon but
have no physical address
here, according to the Legis-
lative Revenue Office.
Legislative
revenue
analysts discussed how the
tax would work for different
companies during a Tuesday
informational
meeting
of the Legislature’s Joint
Committee on Tax Reform.
The committee will
convene Thursday, May
11, to examine how the
tax would affect particular
industry sectors in the state.
The state already has
a corporate income tax,
but federal law prevents
the state from levying an
income tax on businesses
that sell in Oregon but have
no locations here.
The proposed .95 percent
commercial activity tax
House Democrats proposed
last week would create a
new tax base out of those
companies. It’s unclear
how much revenue those
companies would generate,
because their sales are
unknown.
The Legislative Revenue
Office has estimated the
tax would yield a net $2
billion in new revenue. That
number is based in part
on data from Ohio, which
already levies a commercial
activity tax.
The tax would also
replace the corporate income
tax, which ranges from
6.6 to 7.6 percent for those
companies that already pay
it. The tax is favorable to
Oregon companies, which
would have to pay taxes
only on their in-state sales.
The .95 percent rate
would apply to businesses
with Oregon sales exceeding
$5 million.
Proponents say the tax
would bring more stability
to the state’s revenue
stream, which can be vola-
tile during changes in the
economy. It also would help
the state stave off spending
reductions due to an antici-
pated $1.6 billion revenue
shortfall.
Opponents say the tax
is a sales tax in disguise
and would be passed onto
consumers in the form of
higher prices.
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