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 ...

The US administration of President Donald Trump undertaking staff cuts at federal organisations including the Department of ...

Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching ...

A massive solar energy project is moving forward at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state, a site historically ...

The Department of Energy staff at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington now has had almost 50 people in a staff of about 300 laid off and more cuts may be coming. The reduction so far is ...

Hanford gave a lot to this country and ... t want radioactive waste definitions redefined to allow waste left in leaky underground tanks, she said. Cantwell also asked about investing in national ...

There are many contaminated buildings, and 56 million gallons of toxic radioactive sludge stored in aging underground tanks ... are at the Hanford site cleaning up radioactive waste.

He will support integration of the tank farm and vitrification plant to assure close coordination during the start up and commissioning of waste treatment ... Noyes came to Hanford in 2001 and ...

At one point, the government considered leaving the leftover waste buried forever in the underground tanks. Just since 2017, the government has spent $20 billion for Hanford’s cleanup ...

Some of the less radioactive waste in leak-prone underground tanks since the 1940s could be turned into a stable glass form this summer, allowing its permanent disposal. The Hanford site ...