Bill Johnson, the newly named president of Mission Support Alliance at Hanford, will bring 22 years of professional experience to the Department of Energy contractor when he starts work Feb. 2.

I’m Dave Miller, joining you now from a place called White Bluffs Overlook. There is a majestic view of a big bend of the Columbia River here, with the Hanford site past it in the background.

Update: Take cover alert was issued at the Hanford nuclear site north of Richland, WA because of an odor at the REDOX plant in 200 Area where plutonium was processed. Workers initially evacuated.

Federal employees at the Hanford nuclear site are not the only ones being laid off recently. A Department of Energy contractor, Navarro-ATL, laid off 15 of about 400 employees last week. The ...

Plans for cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste near Richland, WA are moving slowly forward. A public comment period for the latest plan ended this ...

Hanford is the most contaminated worksite in America. Plutonium was produced for decades at the 580 square mile reservation near Richland for the country’s nuclear weapons program.

A federal mediator has been called in as the Hanford Guards Union Local 21 and Hanford Mission Integration Solutions have agreed to return to the bargaining table Monday, Dec. 2.

The waste in the Hanford tanks is made up of highly radioactive cesium, strontium and various other toxic chemicals left over from the World War II bomb works. About 53 millions gallons was stored ...