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.
Author Tom Mueller and Hanford whistleblower Donna Busche will appear Wednesday evening at Elliott Bay Book Company. His book includes an examination of decades of...
It's part of a test project to see if driving chromium that's already contaminating the soil deeper down to the groundwater would speed cleanup of...
The Trump Administration on Wednesday finalized a controversial rule to change the federal definition of high-level radioactive wastes, a move that intensifies a clash with...
Ecology Director Maia Bellon, in a letter to the federal Energy Department, warns of a return to court litigation should the Trump administration opt out...
Some contamination was not the type expected, spread further than anticipated and was found on a worker's personal clothing, according to incident reports published by...
Plenty of other challenges remain in a gargantuan Hanford cleanup begun in the late 20th century that is projected to continue deep into this century.
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...
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...
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...
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