The Department of Energy is bringing experts in beryllium exposure to the Tri-Cities to help former Hanford workers learn more about whether their health could be affected by the metal. Former ...

The Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council ... Open-air demolition involving heavy equipment was underway at PFP when the alarm sounded shortly before 7 a.m. June 7. HAMTC and CH2M Hill Plateau ...

For me to be stupid now? Yeah, it makes me mad.” For 40 years plutonium buttons for nuclear warheads were manufactured inside the PFP. Hanford is not a nuclear power plant. It is a 586 square ...

Eight months ago, on June 8, the person was one of hundreds working on the demolition of Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP). The workers were told to ‘take cover’ as a ‘precaution ...

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- State officials are demanding answers and action from the operator of a former metal recycling business, as well as the current owners of the property. According to state ...

Chances look good that more Hanford site workers will get timely medical help after being unknowingly exposed to a toxic metal at the nuclear reservation. Last August Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., ...

At Hanford, in southeastern Washington ... In December 2017, demolition of the Plutonium Processing Plant — or PFP as locals call it — was in trouble. There were contaminated cars, radioactive ...

Plutonium created at Hanford was used in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The PFP was revamped for the stabilization work. In May 1997, 35 gallons of hydroxylamine nitrate and nitric acid in a ...

Hanford is the nation’s largest nuclear cleanup site, with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste sitting in old, leaky underground tanks just a few hours upriver from Portland. After more than ...