Rescue and cleanup teams are remembered.
Photo: Eric Schmieman
Radiation Threat Still Permeates
Entombment of Chernobyl Reactor
By Peter Reina
The scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster is still a very dangerous place due to the ubiquitous threat of radioactivity.
Technician Everett Gray simulates glove-box nuclear waste analysis.
Photo: John Britton, DOE
Huge Clean-Up at Bomb-Making Site
Is the Latest Atomic Fallout
By Debra K. Rubin
The legacy of Hanford’s massive industrial production has only recently become clear, as a new generation of scientists, engineers, technicians and construction workers confronts its by­product.

See the Leading Contenders
For the Best Project of the Year
The competition is on to determine the best project built in the last year. You’ll find the winners from each region that are competing for the 2008 national award in 14 photo and text galleries.
Photo: Rachel Nowicki
Entries to ENR’s Photo Contest:
Click Here to See Them All
See the construction site and industry with fresh eyes by reviewing all the entries to ENR’s annual Year in Construction photo contest in the new online gallery.
All Sectors Go Negative Next Year As Real Recession Rattles Markets
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All Sectors Go Negative Next Year
As Real Recession Rattles Markets
By Tim Grogan and Steven W. Setzer
The housing contagion is starting to infect healthy nonresidential-building and public-works markets.
Video
Chernobyl's Towns
Chernobyl's Towns : ENR's London Correspondent, Peter Reina, made a memorable visit to Pripyat, Chernobyl's abandoned town, and Slavutich, where evacuees settled.
Stalked by Radioactivity
Airport Experts Air It Out
Crane Exam
Stalked by Radioactivity Airport Experts Air It Out Crane Exam
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Workforce Solutions

Pipe trades will be in high demand in future years.Distance Learning Tools Link Project Management Students
Parsons Corp. and Texas A&M University are virtual technology to forge a master's level project management degree program that also includes broader, nonengineering skills.

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Top Stories

Yearly Highway Funds Dropped 9%,
Adding to Road Finance Worries
By Tom Ichniowski
Vehicle miles traveled fell in September, the 11th-consecutive monthly decline.

Fix Or Replace? Ohio Ponders Road
To Take On Old Cleveland Bridge
Ohio Dept. of Transportation officials and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson are locked in discussions over one of the city's major bridges.

Contractor to Pay Federal Authorities
For Inflated Asphalt Road Weights
Prosecutors say the firm manually overroad computer controls at its Massachusetts plant.

Drilled Shaft Inspections - You Can't Beat The Human Touch
A viewpoint by John R. Roma
Some time ago, a colleague called to get my opinion on the use of TV cameras for underground inspection of drilled shafts.

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Cover Story:
Radiation Threat Still Permeates Chernobyl's Entombment
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