The Hanford Site is the most polluted area in the US, though cleanup started decades ago. Estimates say it will take decades more and up to $640 billion to finish the job. The site just received ...

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Local Power outage at part of Hanford nuclear site. What we know about today’s early outage By Tri-City Herald staff Updated October 21, 2024 2:48 PM Richland, WA ...

Most of the 580-square-mile Hanford site is now part of the Hanford Reach National Monument or is designated for preservation and conservation once environmental cleanup is completed.

In November 2018, a Hanford worker driving a motorcycle on Route 4 South toward the Wye Barricade entrance to the site hit a deer. Mikhail “Mike” Stewart died.

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.

Richland, WA The Department of Energy staff at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington now has had almost 50 people in a staff of about 300 laid off and more cuts may be coming. The ...

Workers at the Hanford Site have finished filling the last large concrete tank in the K Reactor Area. They used enough cement-like group to fill two Olympic-size swimming pools.

David Turk, federal Deputy Secretary of Energy, speaks to about 100 people during an informational meeting Sept. 22, 2023, about potential clean energy development at Hanford.