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On the recordApril 8, 2019
Mr. Hamilton, in your testimony you noted that the four waste drums at the Idaho Advanced Retrieval Project which exploded were a 'near miss,' and that there was 'some degree of luck that nobody was there to get hurt.'
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Jim Cooper
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cooper questions Hamilton about safety concerns after a near miss incident at a waste facility.

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