Cleanup estimate for Hanford nuclear site increases by $82B
The Hanford nuclear site in Washington state became contaminated following the production of about two-thirds of the country's plutonium for nuclear weapons programs. A new...
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Read about the Hanford site and the cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, near Richland, Wash., which is engaged in a massive cleanup following decades of plutonium production for nuclear weapons.
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Justice Department sues Washington state over law to compensate sick Hanford workers
Under the law, some cancers and other illnesses are assumed to be due to chemical or radiological exposures at Hanford unless that presumption can be...
Trump plan to reclassify nuke waste alarms environmentalists
Conservation groups are alarmed by the Trump administration's proposal to rename some radioactive waste left from the production of nuclear weapons to make it cheaper...
Justice Department threatens to sue Washington state over compensation law that aids Hanford workers
Federal lawsuit to challenge the state law could come as early as Friday
US says no radiation released in steam leak at nuclear site
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — No airborne radiation was detected after steam escaped Friday from a tunnel containing radioactive waste at a former nuclear weapons production...
$200 million Superfund agreement reached to finish cleanup of 2 Hanford areas
The cleanup of the two areas near the Columbia River has been under way since the mid-1990s, a portion of a much larger response to...
After unfavorable audit, feds pare back Bechtel’s spending authority at Hanford
The decision results from “concerns and deficiencies” identified in nationwide audit.
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