WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Times of clouds
and sun
Breezy with clouds
and sun
57° 39°
57° 33°
TUESDAY
Breezy with some
sun
Mostly cloudy with
a shower
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
57° 40°
61° 47°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
61° 37°
61° 40°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
64°
58°
79° (1964)
47°
37°
19° (1936)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
1.38"
1.40"
3.71"
6.27"
3.91"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
66°
61°
79° (2003)
0.00"
0.75"
0.85"
2.38"
4.93"
3.09"
SUN AND MOON
Apr 8
Bend
56/35
Burns
55/31
New
6:38 a.m.
7:22 p.m.
7:48 p.m.
7:06 a.m.
First
Apr 15
Apr 22
Caldwell
60/37
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Lo
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35
45
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Hi
48
58
56
59
58
52
54
57
61
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60
54
51
67
49
54
64
62
57
52
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57
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Lo
37
30
29
43
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34
31
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34
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38
29
35
28
27
36
36
30
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
65/33
Hi
75
80
65
49
77
38
52
61
66
76
63
Lo
50
70
50
40
49
32
42
48
48
68
54
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Sun.
Hi
81
80
72
49
79
41
52
62
62
85
67
Lo
53
70
53
41
53
36
43
44
54
69
57
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun
today; pleasant in the south. Partly cloudy
tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Times of sun
and clouds today with a shower in spots.
Partly cloudy tonight.
Western Washington: Clouds and sunshine
today. Partly cloudy tonight. Occasional rain
tomorrow.
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Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today.
Partly cloudy tonight. Intervals of clouds
and sun tomorrow.
Cascades: Clouds and sun today. Partly
cloudy tonight. Intervals of clouds and sun
tomorrow.
Northern California: Partial sunshine
today. Patchy clouds tonight. Mostly sunny
tomorrow.
Today
Sunday
NNE 3-6
WNW 4-8
WSW 12-25
W 12-25
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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Hi
54
56
56
63
55
52
61
56
61
55
65
55
52
72
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57
61
61
57
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
WINDS
Medford
72/41
PRECIPITATION
Mar 31
John Day
55/37
Ontario
61/38
48°
37°
16° (1954)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
62/36
Eugene
61/35
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
65° 47°
Spokane
Wenatchee
52/35
58/37
Tacoma
Moses
59/37
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 59/35
53/35
55/41
60/36
62/37
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
62/38
57/42 Lewiston
61/39
Astoria
58/38
54/39
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
64/42
Pendleton 52/33
The Dalles 61/40
57/39
64/41
La Grande
Salem
55/36
62/38
Corvallis
61/36
HIGH
60° 40°
Seattle
60/42
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
57° 31°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Times of sun and
clouds
49° 30°
Saturday, March 31, 2018
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1
2
3
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
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-10s
-0s
showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Heavy snow will fall over the upper Great Lakes while high winds and
spotty showers occur farther south in the Midwest today. Spotty storms will affect South
Florida as new snow falls on the northern Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 99° in Thermal, Calif.
Low -8° in Tioga, N.D.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
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70
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59
24
72
57
52
69
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81
55
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57
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Sun.
Hi
77
75
58
58
43
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62
54
78
53
39
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61
43
86
36
25
82
82
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Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
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80
56
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60
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Lo
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Lo
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Doubts raised that massive Hanford plant can open by 2022
By ANNETTE CARY
Tri-City Herald
The Department of Energy
doubts whether its contractor
is on track to start operating
the massive Hanford vitrifica-
tion plant by a 2022 deadline.
However, DOE has not
notified the state of Wash-
ington that legal deadlines for
the project are at risk, which
it is required to do if the
2023 legal deadline to start
operating part of the plant is
at risk.
Instead, it is directing its
contractor, Bechtel National,
to improve its performance
to boost chances that the
plant will be operating by the
earlier 2022 date DOE set for
Bechtel.
“At this time, the Office of
River Protection is concerned
that BNI (Bechtel National)
is not making satisfactory
progress in meeting project
performance expectations,”
the DOE Hanford Office of
River Protection said in a
statement Thursday.
The issue of whether
Bechtel would meet its
plant operation deadlines
was raised in two recent
documents related to the
contractor’s pay.
Contractor
Bechtel
National received just 48
percent of the pay it could
have earned based on DOE’s
subjective evaluation of its
performance in 2017.
A scorecard prepared to
explain the pay decision to the
public listed DOE concerns,
including that some deadlines
were at risk of being missed.
In the second document,
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File
In this 2014, file photo, a sign informs visitors of
prohibited items on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation
near Richland, Wash.
a letter sent March 23,
DOE told Bechtel that it
would not be providing any
advance pay toward what the
contractor could earn for its
performance this year.
Bechtel has the option of
requesting some of its pay
early as it makes progress
toward meeting contract
requirements.
The letter said DOE was
concerned that Bechtel “was
not making satisfactory prog-
ress in meeting the project
performance expectations”
that it will start glassifying
low-activity
radioactive
waste by Jan. 15, 2022.
Hanford Challenge, which
obtained the DOE letter on
withholding advance pay
for 2018, is concerned about
whether the public is being
told the whole story by DOE,
said Tom Carpenter, exec-
utive director of the Seat-
tle-based watchdog group.
Bechtel’s contract requires
it to start treating radioactive
waste by 2022, reflecting
DOE’s goal to have the plant
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operating before a deadline
set by a federal judge of
December 2023.
Construction on the plant,
which is expected to cost
more than $17 billion, started
in 2002.
Then the plan was to start
operating the entire plant
in 2019. But after technical
issues were raised involving
high-level radioactive waste,
a new plan was adopted to
start treating just low-activity
waste for disposal by 2023.
The plant is being built
to turn up to 56 million
gallons of radioactive waste
held in underground tanks
into a stable glass form for
disposal. The waste is left
from producing plutonium
for the nation’s nuclear
weapons program.
The DOE letter directs
Bechtel to come up with
a realistic schedule for
completing individual tasks
to meet the 2022 deadline for
the start of waste treatment.
Bechtel also must have a
system to identify trends
before they put deadlines at
risk.
Bechtel was eligible to
receive $7.9 million in pay
based on DOE’s evaluation
of its performance in calender
year 2017.
DOE rated its perfor-
mance for the year in two
categories, cost and project
management, as “satisfac-
tory.” The rating earned it
$3.8 million, or 48 percent of
pay available.
The percentage earned
dropped from the previous
year, when Bechtel earned
71 percent of pay available
based on a DOE evaluation
of its performance in 2016.
However, 2017 was the
first year of a major contract
revision to reflect the new
focus on starting to treat low
activity radioactive waste
first.
The 2017 contract goals
put the emphasis on meeting
four deadlines to earn Bechtel
$17.1 million, in addition to
pay available from DOE’s
subjective
evaluation.
Bechtel met the deadlines,
which were for equipment
installation, early to earn full
pay.
But in its subjective rating,
DOE gave Bechtel a rating
of only 40 percent in the
category of “cost, schedule
and efficiencies.”
Performance
trends
showed deadlines for starting
to operate the part of the plant
that will treat low-activity
waste “are at risk,” the score-
card said.
It also said that a
significant amount of the
management reserve, the
extra money budgeted to
cover risks, was being spent
by Bechtel.
“Management reserve is
being managed by question-
able processes,” which leads
DOE to doubt Bechtel’s
ability to meet deadlines for
starting to operate the plant,
the scorecard said. No addi-
tional details on management
reserve were included in the
scorecard.
DOE pointed out in a state-
ment that it recognizes the
challenges and significance
of the current turning point of
the vitrification plant project.
Design and construction have
been the focus of the project
since 2000, and now work is
shifting to preparing parts of
the plant for operation.
“We have additional work
to do on the annual criteria
graded by the Department (of
Energy),” despite meeting
four contract goals, said
Bechtel spokesman George
Rangel. But Bechtel “is
confident in the plant’s ability
to begin safely treating
Hanford’s tank waste as soon
as 2022.”
Correction
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call numbers for KUMA for the Lions Club Radio Auction
on Tuesday, April 3. Listeners are encouraged to tune in to
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to support the local Lions Club.
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