Over the past two years, the explosive growth of artificial intelligence has created a dilemma for tech behemoths: How can ...

Mandatory processes and detailed rules have increasingly constrained officials’ discretion, leading to endless lawsuits, decadeslong project delays and multibillion-dollar cost overruns. There’s a ...

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 ...

More than 35 years after a Tri-Party Agreement was forged to promote cleanup at Eastern Washington’s Hanford site, the people ...

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 ...

The U.S. government wants to select "disparate" locations where it could eventually make bomb-grade uranium again.

The day after being sworn in as secretary of energy, self-described nerd Chris Wright said updating the U.S. nuclear arsenal, increasing civilian nuclear ...

Complicating the Gateway project are the unknowns underground, from an 1800s-era bulkhead supporting Manhattan to a former landfill on the path.

The other two production sites for the Manhattan Project – Hanford, Washington, and Los Alamos, New Mexico – have numerous nonprofits nearby protesting weapons and advocating for environmental cleanup ...

Amazon is suing a Washington state agency to block the release of sensitive Project Kuiper documents requested by The Washington Post, citing trade secrets and employee privacy concerns. Listen to ...