Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

The Trump administration has laid off 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, affecting employees in critical ...

For decades, the Hanford Site in central Washington produced plutonium for the United States’ nuclear arsenal. But since its operations were shuttered, starting in the 1960s, the site has become ...

It’s been called the most contaminated site in the Western Hemisphere. And among those proposed for cuts are engineers who ...

He has an opportunity to send a powerful message that America’s energy future includes an unwavering commitment to cleaning ...

Today, an estimated 56 million gallons of radioactive waste remains at Hanford, much of it in storage tanks that are known to be leaking. Considering that the site sits near the Columbia River, about ...

Environmental cleanup is underway at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington after the site was used to produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program. Department of ...

These tech giants recognize that the next generation of microprocessors to be used for AI calculations at data centers will ...

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 WWII and the ...

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, former CEO of the fracking company Liberty Energy, on Friday issued his first Secretarial Order which directs the Department of Energy t ...

Cantwell also voted against advancing his nomination out of Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Jan. 15 for ...

Tri-City Herald file The 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation adjacent to Richland was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the ...