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When bureaucratic roadblocks threatened to stall Hanford cleanup and eliminate local jobs, Sen. Patty Murray stepped up and ...
The Trump administration has proposed a $34 million cut for the Hanford nuclear site for the next fiscal year compared to ...
A 42-year-old Hanford workers collapsed and died Wednesday on the Hanford nuclear site. The man was working the night shift at the massive vitrification plant when he walked out to a portable ...
“It’s an old scabbed-over wound,” Murphy said ... permanently in stainless steel containers at a landfill at the Hanford site. But there isn’t a deep geologic repository in the U.S ...
Part of an old military shell was blown up at the Hanford nuclear reservation early Tuesday morning. Workers assigned to routine surveying and excavation work at the site found an artillery fuse ...
KENNEWICK – A major Hanford nuclear site contractor for the Deparment of ... including treating contaminated groundwater, tearing down old, contaminated structures, preparing to remove capsules ...
(Hanford’s site is about 400,000 acres ... The Energy Department started an initiative in 1990 to demolish the old laboratories and manufacturing buildings and clear the nuclear reservation ...
The Hanford site adjacent to Richland was used from World ... and the possibility that an earthquake could damage the 52-year-old structure and allow a release of radioactive material.
The Hanford site produced plutonium for the nation’s ... the Yakima Barricade entrance to the secure portion of Hanford and the old Wye Barricade, she said. HMIS employees and visitors are ...
This summer the plant is expected to start treating some decades-old tank waste for ... for the 580-square-mile site in Eastern Washington. The 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear site was left ...