The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...

Hanford plant begins final testing phase using chemical simulants for waste. Low Activity Waste Facility aims to start treating radioactive waste by July. DOE contractor H2C set to assume ...

Money was made available to prevent subcontractor employee layoffs at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington the day after Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., faced off with Energy Secretary Chris ...

In 1945, the Hanford Site in Washington State produced plutonium for the Manhattan Project, changing the course of history. Robert Oppenheimer’s haunting words, “Now I am become Death,” echoed as the ...

Growth spurs Umatilla County to push for use of small modular reactor, but the idea won’t go anywhere unless local voters ...

Washington Energy hasn’t finalized its site yet. The city is prepared to sell 425 acres of former Hanford nuclear site land to a company operating as Washington Energy LLC. If it chooses Richland for ...

Seattle, blocked a bill that would have helped the Tri-Cities secure billions in investment and more than 1,000 jobs.

Washington Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, blocked a bill that would have helped the Tri-Cities secure billions in economic investment and more than 1,000 jobs. A Seattle-based state ...

The nation’s new energy secretary is “passionately in support” of leaving the four lower Snake River dams in Eastern ...