The Department of Energy plans to extend the contract for work at the Hanford tank farms for up to two years after a challenge to the latest contract award at the nuclear reservation site in ...

Scientists studying the soil beneath a leaking Hanford nuclear waste storage tank have discovered more than 100 species of bacteria living in a toxic, radioactive environment that most would have ...

Hanford had different processes for different wastes: Slightly contaminated liquids went into ponds, solid waste was buried, and some gases were released into the air. Across the reserve ...

The Department of Energy contractor responsible for security at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington will order guards back to work after Local 21 members voted down a third proposed ...

KENNEWICK, Wash. — The Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused one of Hanford’s biggest contractors of repeatedly billing the government for work that wasn’t done in a multi-million dollar ...

RICHLAND -- Hanford workers have removed 40,000 tons of carcasses, manure and other waste from burial trenches at the former experimental animal farms at Hanford. That included a railroad tanker ...

Government negotiators are looking for a compromise. B Plant, the Hanford Site’s earliest plutonium processing facility in Washington State.Credit...Mason Trinca for The New York Times Supported ...