Image: The hulls of nuclear submarines at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state. Pic: San Francisco Chronicle/AP The NNSA is part of the Department of Energy (DOE) which has laid off ...

The Hanford site was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce two-thirds of the nation’s plutonium for nuclear weapons, leading to major contamination. Federal employees at the ...

More than a dozen Department of Energy workers were fired this month at an Eastern Washington nuclear cleanup site, with at least 30 more federal workers taking buyouts, the latest in President ...

But that was not enough to earn her support for confirmation. Environmental cleanup is underway at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington after the site was used to produce ...

Courtesy Department of Energy She has heard that the layoffs are “well over a dozen” at the Hanford nuclear reservation, she said. The Tri-City Herald has not received a response from DOE ...

“We are talking about safety engineers at the Hanford nuclear cleanup site, VA doctors and nurses, utility line workers in my home state, [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] health ...

the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington state, where workers secure 177 high-level waste tanks from the site's previous work producing plutonium for the atomic bomb; and the Oak Ridge Reservation ...