QUES: Only two bidders of the six have expressed interest in the whole pie - oil tycoon Marvin Davis and Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman Jr .

Only two of the bidders have so far expressed interest in buying all the assets -- Davis and Bronfman .

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QUES: When contacted last night , Perkins declined comment .

Perkins and Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway declined comment Sunday night .

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ANS: no

QUES: The equivalent of 75,000 55-gallon barrels of waste thought to contain transuranic waste are stored underground at Hanford .

The equivalent of 75,000 55-gallon barrels of transuranic and low-level radioactive waste , some of it mixed with hazardous chemicals , is buried at Hanford .

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no