A dry pile of the weeds can burn 6 to 10 feet tall. And burning tumbleweeds at the Hanford nuclear cleanup site — with sensitive areas like near world-renowned laboratories that look for black ...

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 ...

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.

The last of nine nuclear reactor fuel basins on the Hanford Site was stabilized early last ... s size of plutonium out of an elephant -sized pile of uranium,” Burghart said.

SPOKANE, Wash. — A spokesperson from the Hanford Nuclear Site said on Thursday morning that radioactive waste from the Hanford Nuclear Site will travel through Spokane in 2025. The site ...

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 ...

HANFORD SITE, Wash. — Washington state and federal agencies announced plans to move forward with cleaning up tank waste at the Hanford Site after considering public feedback. The U.S ...

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 ...

The Hanford nuclear site guards were locked out starting at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday as their third contract extension expired on a three-year contract originally good through Nov. 1. The union members ...