When it comes to government transparency and the Hanford nuclear site, the stakes couldn’t be higher for people who rely on ...

Workers are preparing to start construction on an 11th disposal cell, called a “super cell” because it is twice the size of the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility’s first eight cells. The ...

An Oregon-based nonprofit filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Energy, claiming the department is not being transparent with potential plans to develop the Hanford site in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – Columbia Riverkeeper has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) related to the "Cleanup to Clean Energy Initiative" at the Hanford Nuclear Site.

Columbia Riverkeeper is seeking records about DOE’s proposal to lease 19,000 acres of unused land at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for clean energy development.

Hanford is home to 177 underground waste storage tanks – a legacy of nuclear weapons development and nuclear energy research during World War II and Cold War. These include 149 single-shell tanks and ...

The Hanford site, which the Columbia River flows through, was left contaminated by radioactive and hazardous chemical waste after producing nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear ...

The federal government’s program that gives payments to people sickened by nuclear weapons testing could be reauthorized and ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend falls in a decades-long tradition of ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump said the United States would hold a meeting with Iran next week but cast doubt on the need for a ...