Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching ...
The Department of Energy staff at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington now has had almost 50 people in a staff of about 300 laid off and more cuts may be coming. The reduction so far is ...
More than 100 small earthquakes have been recorded since Saturday about 30 miles northwest of the Tri-Cities on the edge of ...
The Hanford site was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce two-thirds of the nation’s plutonium for nuclear weapons, leading to major contamination. Federal employees at the ...
The Hanford nuclear site contractor responsible for radioactive waste tanks for more than 16 years has lost $10.2 million in potential pay after claims that workers were too often idle because ...
More than a dozen Department of Energy workers were fired this month at an Eastern Washington nuclear cleanup site, with at least 30 more federal workers taking buyouts, the latest in President ...