Workers are preparing to start construction on an 11th disposal cell, called a “super cell” because it and two others are twice the size of each of the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility’s ...

It settles one of two federal lawsuits against Hanford contractors accused of using taxpayer dollars to pay idle workers.

Idaho Downwinders were elated to hear that the state was added back to legislation for compensation for impacts of nuclear ...

Linking the waste storage tanks to the vit plant was one of the final steps to ready the plant for turning radioactive waste into a stable glass form for disposal. The Hanford nuclear site was ...

DOE to begin $95M expansion of Hanford nuclear site landfill for radioactive waste disposal, allowing continued environmental cleanup through 2040.

DOE to begin $95M expansion of Hanford nuclear site landfill for radioactive waste disposal, allowing continued environmental cleanup through 2040.

RICHLAND – The Department of Energy is ready to begin a three-year construction project critical to the environmental cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington. The huge, lined ...

The Department of Energy is ready to begin a three-year construction project critical to the environmental cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington. The huge, lined landfill in ...

RICHLAND -- Men who grew up near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south-central Washington during the 1940s and 1950s have a slightly higher risk of developing thyroid disease, according to a ...

For now, though, most of it is stored in underground steel tanks, primarily at Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina, key sites in U.S. nuclear weapons development. At Savannah River ...

Federal employees at the Hanford nuclear site are not the only ones being laid off recently. A Department of Energy contractor, Navarro-ATL, laid off 15 of about 400 employees last week. The ...