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

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

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Energy picked roughly 400 people to lay off at the Bonneville Power Administration, which masterminds ...

WA congressional delegation says they can’t get information on the number of federal jobs cut or positions eliminated at agencies in Washington.

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.

More than a dozen workers were laid off from Hanford, which is contaminated with radioactive waste produced during plutonium production started in World War II. The DOE’s Bonneville Power ...

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 ...

Layoffs at the Hanford site included safety engineers and scientists, Sen. Patty Murray said. Hundreds of other federal workers in the state lost their jobs too.