The Iberian blackout was a timely reminder of the risks we face. It’s time to heed the warnings of our grid operators and ...

Growth spurs Umatilla County to push for use of small modular reactor, but the idea won’t go anywhere unless local voters ...

The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...

More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site's massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as soon as ...

In 1945, the Hanford Site in Washington State produced plutonium for the Manhattan Project, changing the course of history. Robert Oppenheimer’s haunting words, “Now I am become Death,” echoed as the ...

Slade and Heckert didn't drop a set as they advanced to a Saturday Class 2B/1B state championship match. The Spartans beat La ...

Washington Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, blocked a bill that would have helped the Tri-Cities secure billions in economic investment and more than 1,000 jobs. A Seattle-based state ...

At 106, Bea Karr isn’t counting candles—she’s collecting stories. Born on May 22, 1919, Birdena “Bea” Karr has lived through ...

Seattle, blocked a bill that would have helped the Tri-Cities secure billions in investment and more than 1,000 jobs.

Rally attendees said Oregon politicians and businesses continue to treat northeast Oregon as an ‘environmental sacrifice zone ...

Across the United States, the Cold War left a toxic inheritance: sprawling sites poisoned by the pursuit of nuclear power and ...

Production of the WWII atomic bomb was “need to know”, limited to physicists and engineers for security.  The two fission bombs immediately killed about a quarter million Japanese.