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.

Hanford site workers have started emptying radioactive waste from underground Tank AX-104 at the Eastern Washington nuclear reservation. Some tanks prone to leak.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The federal government has declined to join a lawsuit critical of the Hanford tank farm program that trains and qualifies the workers assigned to protect against chemical vapors. Kevin Newcomb, a ...

RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford workers have emptied the nuclear reservation's 11th leak-prone underground tank of radioactive waste.

Washington River Protection Solutions, the Hanford site’s tank farm contractor, awarded an $8.9 million subcontract to Fowler General Construction to build an asphalt ground cover over the U ...

The current tank farm contractor employs about 2,300 workers and relies on an additional 300 subcontractor workers. No workforce impacts are expected if stable funding for the Hanford site ...

In May 2020, DOE awarded a 10 year, $13 billion contract to manage Hanford tank waste to a team headed by BWXT and Fluor with primary subcontractors Intera and DBD. It did not include the ...

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.