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.
Responding to a Seattle Times investigation, a federal advocacy group is pushing for federal disability payments for Hanford workers potentially sickened by faulty respirators.
Bill Evans Jr. was one of some 560 workers who used flawed respiratory protection in the clean-up of Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant. Did that safety...
After 40 years of operations, and 20 years of often-dangerous cleanup work, crews recently finished demolishing the Plutonium Finishing Plant’s main processing facility at the...
State regulators say restricting access to documents undermines an extra set of eyes on Hanford that helps keep workers safe, informs the public and prevents...
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.
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