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RICHLAND  (AP) — The U.S. Energy Department's top official at Washington state's severely contaminated Hanford Nuclear Reservation says future accidental nuclear radiation releases are likely because the aging site's infrastructure is breaking down amid inadequate funding to quickly clean up millions of gallons of radioactive waste...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A cleanup contractor says the release of radiation that triggered an alarm at a former plutonium production site in Washington state was so low that it did not pose a threat to human health. Contractor CH2M Hill said radiation was detected Thursday at low levels outside a building being demolished at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation...

RICHLAND (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry says a hole that developed in the top of a nuclear waste storage tunnel in Washington state has been filled. Perry announced Thursday morning that the 400-square foot (37 square meter) hole was filled swiftly and safely...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation have finished demolishing a facility that was the site of a famous nuclear accident during the Cold War. The U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday that the building containing the so-called McCluskey Room had been demolished...

The U.S. government said Wednesday that traces of radiation have been found in milk in Washington state, but said the amounts are far too low to trigger any public-health concern.

Gov. Chris Gregoire today issued the following statement on ongoing radiological monitoring of milk, precipitation and drinking water.