The Hanford Site is the most polluted area in the US, though cleanup started decades ago. Estimates say it will take decades more and up to $640 billion to finish the job. The site just received ...

HANFORD SITE — A clock centered high on a big control ... The B Reactor tours begin and end there, and along with multiple historic photos and newspaper articles, those taking the tour watch ...

RICHLAND – Money was made available to prevent subcontractor employee layoffs at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington the day after Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., faced off with Energy ...

In the site's early days, plutonium would be sent from Hanford to the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where Manhattan Project scientists would use it in the development of atomic weapons.

Dee and Freda have joined the Hanford nuclear reservation site security team in Eastern Washington. They are K-9 police dogs specially trained to sniff out explosives. “We consider Dee and Freda ...

Low-level waste would be converted and disposed of permanently in stainless steel containers at a landfill at the Hanford site. But there isn’t a deep geologic repository in the U.S. to dispose ...

The Hanford guards will return to work at the Hanford nuclear site 47 days after they were locked out as their contract expired. On Thursday, the Hanford Guards Union approved a contract proposal ...

The top local leader for the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington has resigned, which follows the resignation of his second in command. Brian Vance has been the Department of Energy Hanford ...

The deadline for the U.S. Dept. of Energy to begin getting rid of long-stored radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear site by starting up a a $17-billion treatment facility has been extended ...

Traffic crowds Highway 240 nearly every morning outside the Hanford Site’s sprawling, sage-studded industrial complex. This site churned out plutonium for nuclear weapons during World War II and ...

Fire Chief Nickolus Thomas’ specially-trained firefighters at the Hanford site in southeast Washington burned 30,000 cubic feet of tumbleweeds in just one spot earlier this year. Out here ...