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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 ...
HANFORD SITE — A clock centered high on a big control ... The B Reactor tours begin and end there, and along with multiple historic photos and newspaper articles, those taking the tour watch ...
Donna Busche raised concerns about design and safety at Hanford Site was created in 1940s to help build the atomic bomb Cleanup costs are billions a year SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Whistle-blower ...
The last of nine nuclear reactor fuel basins on the Hanford Site was stabilized early last week. As part of the Manhattan project during World War II, the U.S. Government built the world’s first ...
Traffic crowds Highway 240 nearly every morning outside the Hanford Site’s sprawling, sage-studded industrial complex. This site churned out plutonium for nuclear weapons during World War II and ...
The deadline for the U.S. Dept. of Energy to begin getting rid of long-stored radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear site by starting up a a $17-billion treatment facility has been extended ...
The top local leader for the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington has resigned, which follows the resignation of his second in command. Brian Vance has been the Department of Energy Hanford ...
That stands to reason, considering the complicated history of the 580-square-mile Hanford site. The Hanford Reach is a 51-mile section of the Columbia River, on the northeastern border of the area.
Fire Chief Nickolus Thomas’ specially-trained firefighters at the Hanford site in southeast Washington burned 30,000 cubic feet of tumbleweeds in just one spot earlier this year. Out here ...