The reduction so far is about 16% of DOE’s Hanford workforce, which was 78% staffed when the layoffs were announced.

Hanford DOE workers are responsible for negotiating ... which is the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant. “The callousness of this administration is breathtaking,” Murray said.

Workers at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant are now wearing radiological dosimeters for the first ...