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Former Nuke Weapons Plant Disinfected; DoE Limits Travel to ‘Mission-Critical’ Trips on Virus Fears

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Monday, March 16th, 2020

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Former Nuke Weapons Plant Disinfected; DoE Limits Travel to ‘Mission-Critical’ Trips on Virus Fears

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An office building used by one of the main contractors for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state has been disinfected after an employee was tested for the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to a weekend posting on a Hanford website. The office building at 3170 George Washington Way “has been disinfected and access is no longer restricted,” DoE said. After consultation with the Benton-Franklin Health District, personnel assigned to the building are not being told to…

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