Hanford was used to produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program during World War II and the Cold War. Environmental cleanup is underway now.

Hanford nuclear site incident raises questions about health, cancer risks. The local community has dubbed the thryoid cancer scar "The Hanford Necklace." By ABC News. May 10, 2017, 6:51 PM.

The Hanford nuclear site's recent tank farm contractor has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle allegations it overcharged taxpayers by paying employees with federal dollars when they had no ...

Richland, WA. After waiting a year without results for the Department of Energy to release public documents about the Hanford nuclear site, Columbia Riverkeeper has run out of patience. The Oregon ...

RICHLAND – The Department of Energy is ready to begin a three-year construction project critical to the environmental cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington. The huge, lined ...

Hanford’s former contractor WRPS settles a $6.5M lawsuit over taxpayer fraud allegations, its second fraud-related settlement for inflating costs.

Getting a nuclear disaster right, mostly. H Henry Fountain Follow; The explosion and fire at Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor April 26, 1986, was an extraordinarily messy and grim event, ...