With this discovery, waste management sites can enhance cleanup technology and reduce contamination risks. Scientists make ...

In the site's early days, plutonium would be sent from Hanford to the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where Manhattan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Courtesy Department of Energy The 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Hanford produced the plutonium to build Fat Man, the atomic weapon that was detonated above Nagasaki at the end of World War II, and for the United States ...

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

Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft executives should instead take a deep breath and begin reevaluating their options. Do they ...

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 ...

The Hanford nuclear site contractor responsible for radioactive waste tanks for more than 16 years has lost $10.2 million in potential pay after claims that workers were too often idle because ...