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

Notably, this output will be double the energy produced by a typical nuclear power plant and significantly surpass the ...

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

Bechtel National earned an incentive payment of $14.2 million from the Department of Energy for its work on the Hanford nuclear site vitrification plant in Eastern Washington in 2024, receiving its ...

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 ...

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

Northwest Democrat U.S. senators are tallying up the initial cuts to staff in federal agencies, some of them with workers in the greater Tri-Cities area or who are key to projects here.

For decades after, plutonium for the U.S. nuclear arsenal was processed ... at a proposed $4 billion vitrification plant. In other words, Hanford has served as the proverbial can being kicked ...

Delmar Noyes has been named the Department of Energy assistant manager for the start up, commissioning and integration of the Hanford vitrification plant effective Nov. 12. He will support ...

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.