On August 30, 1976, Harold McCluskey, a chemical operator at the Hanford nuclear weapons plant, survived what is considered one of the highest doses of radiation exposure ever recorded. The incident ...

The House Appropriations Committee has found $8 million more for the latest version of its Hanford tank farms budget for next year. The committee also removed criticism of Hanford's Plutonium ...

Radioactive contamination was found outside a Plutonium Finishing Plant office trailer, after plant workers were relocated to that office and other offices farther from the plant. Hanford officials ...

The 56 million gallons of radioactive waste created from decades of plutonium enrichment at Hanford are stored in 177 massive, underground tanks on 18 different “farms” spread out over the 580 square ...

On June 8 approximately 350 Hanford workers were ordered to “take cover” after alarms designed to detect elevated levels of airborne radioactive contamination went off. It was quickly determined that ...

(AP) - The number of vehicles with specks of radioactive material has increased to 19 as checks continue at Hanford's Plutonium Finishing Plant continue. The Tri-City Herald reports as of Wednesday ...

Officials say equipment found with "low levels" of plutonium and other radioactive contamination left the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and entered Richland by mistake. The Tri-City Herald reports a ...

The Hanford site Department of Energy manager who led much of the transition from weapons plutonium production to environmental cleanup has died. John D. Wagoner died June 6 in Knoxville, Tenn., at ...

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 toilet ...