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. The reduction so far is ...

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

Officials are alarmed by the firing of 13% of the Bonneville Power Administration workforce since the PNW energy distributor ...

More than 100 people protested at John Dam Plaza as job cuts hit local federal workers and other policies sparked concern.

Washington Senator Patty Murray spoke out on Friday after “mass firings” from the Hanford site and the Bonneville Power ...

More than a dozen Department of Energy workers were fired this month at a central Washington nuclear cleanup site, with at ...

The Trump administration layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford, NOAA, the Bonneville Power ...

Murray said at a news conference Tuesday she’s concerned about the Trump administration’s dismissal of about 12 U.S. Department of Energy staffers and what effect that will have on safety at the site.

The Safeguards and Security team at Hanford is taking steps to ensure both information security and environmental protection.

Hanford nuclear site workers are doing environmental cleanup work after the 580-square-mile Eastern Washington site adjacent to Richland was used to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for ...