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

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.

During World War II, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was the site of testing grounds where early scientists were trying to ...

Image: The hulls of nuclear submarines at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state. Pic: San Francisco Chronicle/AP The NNSA is part of the Department of Energy (DOE) which has laid off ...

Layoffs at the Hanford site included safety engineers and scientists, Sen. Patty Murray said. Hundreds of other federal ...

Courtesy Department of Energy She has heard that the layoffs are “well over a dozen” at the Hanford nuclear reservation, she said. The Tri-City Herald has not received a response from DOE ...

But that was not enough to earn her support for confirmation. Environmental cleanup is underway at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington after the site was used to produce ...

“We are talking about safety engineers at the Hanford nuclear cleanup site, VA doctors and nurses, utility line workers in my home state, [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] health ...

the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington state, where workers secure 177 high-level waste tanks from the site's previous work producing plutonium for the atomic bomb; and the Oak Ridge Reservation ...