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...
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$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.
Study: Traces of radioactive contamination found in homes of six Hanford workers
The levels are low, but if some microparticles are inhaled or ingested by nuclear-site workers or their families, the radioactive dust is a “potential source...
U.S. Senate panel restores Hanford cleanup funds that Trump wanted to trim
The Appropriations Committee budget represents a $315 million increase from the funding levels proposed by the Trump administration.
DOE’s oversight at Hanford slammed in government report
A new report to Congress raises concerns about a Hanford cornerstone project in the decadeslong efforts to clean up the radioactive and chemical wastes from...
Feds skeptical that massive Hanford plant will open by 2022
RICHLAND — The U.S. Department of Energy has doubts that a massive nuclear-waste treatment plant at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation can open by a 2022...
42 Hanford workers contaminated with radiation
The final results of worker tests after a December spread of contamination found that 11 Hanford workers had inhaled or ingested radioactive particles from demolition...
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