The testing process, called “hot commissioning,” will introduce radioactive waste to the plant for the first time and verify ...

She was a former Richland council member and a nuclear engineer at a time when few women had that career at Hanford.

The massive bill is guided by spending requests from the White House. It will extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts, while cutting ...

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different ...

The Tri-Cities region is home to large number of engineers that’s consistently higher than the state average. Thanks to major employers including the Hanford site, Pacific Northwest National ...

The Hanford nuclear site’s recent tank farm contractor has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle allegations it overcharged taxpayers by paying employees with federal dollars when they had no ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...