Idaho Downwinders were elated to hear that the state was added back to legislation for compensation for impacts of nuclear ...

It settles one of two federal lawsuits against Hanford contractors accused of using taxpayer dollars to pay idle workers.

Linking the waste storage tanks to the vit plant was one of the final steps to ready the plant for turning radioactive waste into a stable glass form for disposal. The Hanford nuclear site was ...

Linking the waste storage tanks to the vit plant was one of the final steps to ready the plant for turning radioactive waste into a stable glass form for disposal. The Hanford nuclear site was ...

DOE to begin $95M expansion of Hanford nuclear site landfill for radioactive waste disposal, allowing continued environmental cleanup through 2040.

DOE to begin $95M expansion of Hanford nuclear site landfill for radioactive waste disposal, allowing continued environmental cleanup through 2040.

For now, though, most of it is stored in underground steel tanks, primarily at Hanford, Washington ... which must be secured and maintained by the power company that owned the nuclear plant. One ...

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 ...

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 landfill in ...

Fifty-six million gallons of chemical and radioactive waste will be processed at the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in Washington state. Photo courtesy Bechtel The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s cold ...

But the real push is for reviving nuclear power, which was all but abandoned in the face of high construction costs, questions about waste handling and public concerns over safety.

Federal employees at the Hanford nuclear site are not the only ones being laid off recently. A Department of Energy contractor, Navarro-ATL, laid off 15 of about 400 employees last week. The ...