hanford nuclear reservation

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Workers have started removing nuclear waste from a leaking tank at the Hanford Site just one day before a state of Washington deadline. The Tri-City Herald reports that Hanford workers began pumping waste from the nuclear reservation's oldest double-shell tank Thursday afternoon. ...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The latest estimate is out to complete the cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The U.S. Department of Energy says the remaining work will cost $107.7 billion and be largely completed by 2060. Monday's estimate was released by the Department of Energy with its regulators, the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Washington. ...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says the uncontrolled spread of small amounts of radioactive waste at Hanford after a Nov. 17 windstorm is alarming. The winds pushed specks of contamination beyond Route 4, the public highway from Richland out to the Wye Barricade entrance to Hanford. The...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Obama administration wants to spend less money on the ongoing cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation next year. The Tri-City Herald reports that the White House called for an overall decrease in money spent for cleanup of defense sites like Hanford in its federal budget request for fiscal year 2017. A Dep...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — An employee at the Hanford Fire Station has tested positive for a very low level of internal radioactive contamination after handling breathing equipment used at the nuclear reservation's Plutonium Finishing Plant. ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The nation's most polluted nuclear weapons production site is now its newest national park. Thousands of people are expected next year to tour the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, home of the world's first full-sized nuclear reactor, near Richland, about 200 miles east of Seattle in south-central Washington. ...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — An Albuquerque, N.M.-based watchdog group is dismissing a plan to move some 3 million gallons of radioactive waste from Washington state to New Mexico as a "bad, old idea that's been uniformly rejected on a bipartisan basis" in the past...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The federal Department of Energy says there is a slow leak in the oldest double-shell waste tank at the Hanford nuclear reservation that's allowing highly radioactive and hazardous waste to leak into the space between the inner and outer shells...