Official in charge of cleaning up nuclear weapons sites resigns

[icymist]

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Official in charge of cleaning up nuclear weapons sites resigns

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES

WASHINGTON -- Assistant Energy Secretary Jessie Roberson, who headed the environmental cleanup program at the department's nuclear weapons sites, including Hanford, resigned yesterday, citing a desire to spend more time with her family.

Roberson has been at the center of an aggressive plan by Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham to speed up the massive environmental cleanup the government faces from waste left from years of nuclear bomb-making.

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Roberson came to the post after overseeing the cleanup of the department's Rocky Flats nuclear site in Colorado. The resignation is the third of a senior Energy Department official closely involved in nuclear waste cleanup or environmental management in just over two months. They, too, cited a desire to spend more time with family.

Davis said "it would be wrong to draw any conclusion" that Roberson's resignation was related to those departures or policy issues.

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[jus_the_facts]

1. Yeah suuuure....*family reasons*...couldn't have a thing to do with.......

.....the announcement by (*) this week of totally disregardin' the term *toxic* in referrence to NEWKULAR waste? :eyes: :puke:

[struggle4progress]

2. kick

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