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 ...

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

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 ...

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-based ...

Hanford site crews prepare to install equipment in a radioactive waste storage tank to remove radioactive waste. Environmental cleanup is underway at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation.

The Hanford site in Washington State made plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, according to the Associated Press. It is about half the size of Rhode Island, according to the AP.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 12, 2018 ” Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) will continue to support the Energy Department ‘s environmental remediation operations along the Columbia River and ...