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4/17/2002 Newman, Darrell (Coordinated Plaintiffs
Fact)
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS
YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC COMPANY,
Plaintiff,
vs.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
No. 98-126C, 98-145C, 98-474C
Defendant.
DEPOSITION OF DARRELL NEWMAN
Taken on behalf of the Plaintiff
April 17,
2002
BE IT REMEMBERED THAT, pursuant to the Washington
Rules of Civil Procedure, the deposition of Darrell
Newman was taken before Marta M. Rice, a Certified
Shorthand Reporter, and a Notary Public for the State of
Washington , on April 17, 2002, commencing at the hour of
10: 20 a. m., the proceedings being reported at the Hampton
Inn, 486 Bradley Boulevard, Richland, Washington.
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4/17/2002 Newman, Darrell (Coordinated Plaintiffs Fact)
I was second lieutenant in the ordinance
corps at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland.
How long were you
there, sir?
months, before
I was there for about six
I was transferred to Fort Riley, Kansas.
And what did you do at Fort Riley?
Fort Riley I was a company commander of
an ordinance company in the first infantry
division.
And after that what did you do?
I was discharged from the army in the
summer of 1965, and I returned to Hanford, to
the Hanford laboratories which then came under
the operation of Battelle.
Do you ha~e an understanding of why the
transfer from GE to Battelle?
GE lost the contract for the Hanford
laboratories under the Atomic Energy Commission
Is
prime contract, but the labs were put up for bid, and Battelle won the bid to operate the
laboratory for the Atomic Energy Commission at
that time.
And what does Battelle do at the Hanford
labs generally?
Battelle operates the Pacific Northwest
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4/17/2002 Newman , Darrell (Coordinated Plaintiffs Fact)
Laboratory. It'
s now the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory.
But at
the time, it didn
have the national designation.
But they -- the
laboratory performed research and development for
now the Department of Energy and it'
predecessors, which were the Energy Research and
Development Administration and the Atomic Energy
Commission.
So when you returned in the summer of
95 to Hanford --
'65.
Oh, I' m sorry.
me.
working for Battelle?
Thank you for correcting
In the summer of 1965 to Hanford, you were
I was working for Battelle.
And what was your position at Battelle?
I was an engineer at the plutonium
cri tical
mass laboratory.
What did you do at that
laboratory, sir?
I did experiments with plutonium in
various forms to determine how much mass it took
to make it critical assembly.
And how long did you work on that
proj ect?
I worked on that for a couple of
years,