Trump administration proposes Hanford nuclear site 2026 cleanup budget critics say lacks money needed to meet DOE legal deadlines for environmental cleanup.

Trump administration proposes Hanford nuclear site 2026 cleanup budget critics say lacks money needed to meet DOE legal deadlines for environmental cleanup.

More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as soon ...

News; Washington; Hanford nuclear site was on the brink of layoffs. Then this happened in D.C. May 27, 2025 Updated Tue., May 27, 2025 at 8:05 p.m. Workers at the Hanford site clean up radioactive ...

Hanford processed plutonium, mostly for the US’s nuclear weapons program from 1943 to 1987 when the last reactor shut down. The object of the work shown in this photo was to collect specimens at the ...

The 586-square-mile Hanford site adjacent to Richland was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program.

UPDATE: May 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM. HANFORD, Wash. – Two shipments of tank waste from the Hanford Site have been completed, the U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) announced Thursday. This marked a ...

A Tri-Cities man admitted to shooting a man because of an $800 drug debt and then helping to hide his body.. Prosecutors agreed to a deal with Javier J. Santana, 48, after he helped police uncover ...

Pasco, WA. A Tri-Cities man admitted to shooting a man because of an $800 drug debt and then helping to hide his body.. Prosecutors agreed to a deal with Javier J. Santana, 48, after he helped ...

Located near the city of Richland, the 586-square mile Hanford Nuclear Site is a former U.S. government site used from 1943-1989 for projects involving nuclear weapons and plutonium.

The 580-square-mile Hanford site adjacent to Richland produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program from World War II through the Cold War.

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 ...