The Hanford Field Office provided a statement addressing concerns about the shipments of tank waste during the Test Bed Initiative. "The shipping method to the grouting and disposal sites in ...

LUCKEY, Ohio — For decades, people living in the shadow of a massive Cold War weapons plant on the edge of town have wondered if there might be something harmful in the groundwater ... the site. Eight ...

As much as $589 billion will be needed to finish environmental cleanup and some monitoring at the Hanford ... The site was left with radioactive and chemical contamination in the groundwater ...

Larned resident Merrill Cauble, pointing at the map, said the ... you would decide to site a feedlot.” In response to a question, KDHE said the draft water permit for the ILS complex didn’t include ...

Hanford produced nearly two ... but large areas of groundwater have since become contaminated. The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet ...

According to some estimates, it could take another 90 years to dispose of the rest of the millions of gallons of radioactive bomb-making waste, demolish contaminated buildings and finish remediating ...

A third aging underground tank at the Hanford nuclear site is suspected of leaking highly ... the leak from Tank T-111 could reach the groundwater, which moves toward the Columbia River.