Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching ...

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 ...

The US administration of President Donald Trump undertaking staff cuts at federal organisations including the Department of ...

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 ...

Murray said at a news conference Tuesday she’s concerned about the Trump administration’s dismissal of about 12 U.S. Department of Energy staffers and what effect that will have on safety at the site.

Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure, LLC (H2C) has officially taken over the Integrated Tank Disposition Contract at the Hanford Site. This transition follows a four-month period ...

Today, an estimated 56 million gallons of radioactive waste remains at Hanford, much of it in storage tanks that are known to be leaking. Considering that the site sits near the Columbia River ...

Workers at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant are now wearing radiological dosimeters for the first ...

The 580-square-mile Hanford site adjacent to Richland in Eastern ... redefined to allow waste left in leaky underground tanks, she told him. She pointed out after the hearing that she had voted ...

Workers started preparing to clean up a highly radioactive spill beneath the Hanford site 324 Building near Richland and the Columbia River in 2017. (Courtesy Department of Energy) More than a ...

Hanford gave a lot to this country and we ... waste definitions redefined to allow waste left in leaky underground tanks, she said. Cantwell also asked about investing in national laboratory ...