The concrete stack stood 175 feet tall, much shorter than when the reactor was irradiating fuel to produce plutonium.

For only the third time in nearly two decades, workers cut into the top of one of the nuclear reservation’s single-shell ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started ...

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 ...

On the desert plateau above the Columbia River, a sprawling nuclear complex the size of a midsize county still holds the most ...

Funding released for Hanford site work after Sen. Murray grilled U.S. energy secretary. Murray warned flat Hanford, WA budgets not adequate for nuclear cleanup. DOE budget plan cuts research funds, ...

Traffic crowds Highway 240 nearly every morning outside the Hanford Site’s sprawling, sage-studded industrial complex. This site churned out plutonium for nuclear weapons during WWII and the Cold War.

HANFORD SITE, Wash. — Washington state and federal agencies announced plans to move forward with cleaning up tank waste at the Hanford Site after considering public feedback. The U.S. Department of ...