Columbia Riverkeeper is seeking records about DOE’s proposal to lease 19,000 acres of unused land at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for clean energy development.

Framatome would invest $375 million to expand its Richland plant to develop and manufacture advanced nuclear fuel and hire 220 workers for the project. It already invests about $10 million ...

Environmental cleanup is underway at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation. The underground radioactive waste storage tanks and the vitrification plant are in the center of the site.

Framatome in Richland WA hires Brian Vance, ex-Hanford nuclear site DOE leader, to oversee its fuel plant as it plans a $375M expansion and workforce growth.

The Hanford site in Washington State made plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, according to the Associated Press. It is about half the size of Rhode Island, according to the AP.

Hanford was used to produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program during World War II and the Cold War. Environmental cleanup is underway now.