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 ...

More scraps of irradiated reactor fuel have been found in Hanford's K West Basin, where it was stored at the end of the Cold War. The three newly discovered scraps -- broken off of uranium fuel rods - ...

Editor’s note: On Oct. 16, 2024, about 100 Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford’s historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park gathered at ...

As much as $589 billion will be needed to finish environmental cleanup and some monitoring at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington, but there is some good news there. Three years ago, the ...

After decades of delays, workers at the Hanford nuclear site this October finally began treatment of the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste leftover from the manufacturing of the U.S. nuclear ...

In part, it was that frightening event that spurred the end of production at Hanford, where the last reactor was closed in 1987. By 1989, the Department of Energy, the state of Washington and the ...

RICHLAND, Wash. — The Hanford nuclear reservation should not be used for long-term storage of the nation’s mercury, says Gary Petersen, vice president of Hanford programs for the Tri-City Development ...

Washington State is home to some of the Pacific Northwest's most intriguing destinations. You could visit Snoqualmie, a ...

It was the B Reactor that produced the first plutonium in the United States. The first supply of plutonium was delivered to the Army on February 2, 1945, just four months after the reactor began ...