Murray said that more than a dozen DOE workers were laid off at DOE's Hanford office in Richland, including safety engineers and environmental scientists. They apparently were people who had been hired within the last one to two years and were still in a probationary period of their jobs with the federal government. "These reckless firings will slow down critical cleanup work and make workers less safe," Murray said. "Trying to run Hanford with a skeleton crew is a recipe for disaster that could have irreversible impacts."
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