Richland, WA. Three Hanford workers spent 24 hours at the Richland hospital last month after reporting headaches, nausea and rapid heart rates at one of the nuclear reservation’s tank farms.

Workers at Hanford's tank farm spend 20 minutes just dressing up, making sure there's no chance of contamination from the leftovers of a frantic effort to develop weapons for World War II and the ...

The B Tank Farm in central Hanford is shown in April 2021. One of the farm’s 16 underground tanks is believed to be leaking radioactive waste into the ground. Courtesy Department of Energy ...

An underground Hanford tank holding 123,000 gallons of radioactive waste appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground, according to the Department of Energy. This is the second of ...

They were preparing the ground to install a high-density asphalt barrier over the surface at Hanford’s largest single-shell tank farm. The TX-Tank Farm has 12 single-shell waste tanks.

A leak in a massive nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site has expanded significantly, KING 5 learned this weekend. Crews at Hanford lowered a camera into the two-foot-wide space between ...

RICHLAND, Wash. -- Workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation are cutting a bigger hole in a high-level radioactive waste tank so a robotic arm can be inserted for cleanup work. Digging down to ...

RICHLAND, Wash. — On June 18 of this year, 10 workers at the Hanford nuclear site in eastern Washington digging in what are known as the "tank farms," were overcome by strange odors.

Energy also went back to the drawing board in 2020 after its first attempt to award a contract for only the tank farm work. The department initially selected a proposal from Hanford Works ...

A Hanford site tank farm contractor says odor that ill workers reported at the Washington nuclear reservation was likely not toxic chemical vapors.