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.

In 2010, nuclear engineer Donna Busche warned of the risks of a disastrous radioactive explosion at a Hanford site waste-treatment plant, then under construction. She insisted on the need for ...

“Hanford poses significant political and legal challenges with the state of Washington, and DOE will have to work with Congress to make progress in accelerating cleanup at that site ...

The T Tank Farm at the Hanford site in Eastern Washington has 16 of the nuclear reservation’s 149 single-shell, underground tanks holding highly radioactive and hazardous chemical waste.

Firefighters at the Hanford site in southeast Washington burned 30,000 cubic feet of tumbleweeds in just one spot earlier this year. But in other parts of the country, people are paying to have ...

New Dept. of Energy agreement with Washington state guides radioactive tank waste cleanup at the Hanford nuclear site near Columbia River.

Richland, WA The fungus that causes white nose syndrome appears to have killed more than 1,000 bats within the last year in the large colony that spends summers at the Hanford site in Eastern ...

Janos Szanyi and his colleagues at PNNL conduct experiments to closely observe the chemical reactions that take place between ...

Editorial | Hanford site nuclear deal is hopeful development. But will it work this time? The Tri-City Herald Editorial Board May 3, 2024 at 8:00 AM Courtesy Washington River Protection Solutions ...

Seattle poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland and worked as a civil engineer at Hanford in the 1980s. She served as Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014. In her first year as ...

Published: 5:25 AM PDT November 4, 2016 Updated: 5:28 AM PDT November 4, 2016 The State of Washington wins round one against Hanford in a court battle to keep workers safe at the site.