hanford nuclear reservation

The Department of Energy is awarding nearly $77 million in incentive pay to four contractors for their work at the Hanford nuclear reservation in fiscal 2020.

Another delay at Hanford nuclear reservation's plant due another spread of radioactive contamination, brought demolition to a still standing.

Trial in a federal court lawsuit over chemical vapors on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has been delayed again.

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Officials in Washington state indefinitely suspended a public utility's authority to ship low-level radioactive waste after the utility mislabeled a shipment. The Tri-City Herald reported Friday that the Washington Department of Health took the action late last month against Energy Northwest...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — State health officials say radioactive plutonium and americium have been found in air samples collected where workers enter the secure area of the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeastern Washington. The Tri-City Herald reported Tuesday that the air samples were collected by the state Department of Health on June 8 at the Rattlesnake Barricade just off of public Highway 2

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...

RICHLAND  (AP) — The state's largest solar power project will be built on former Hanford Nuclear Reservation land near Richland. The 20-megawatt solar project will be built by French company Neoen. The Tri-City Herald says it should be completed by 2019...

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...

SPOKANE  (AP) — Members of Congress are asking the federal government to review the progress of years of cleanup work at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, in light of the partial collapse of a tunnel containing radioactive wastes earlier this month...

RICHLAND  (AP) — Radioactive contamination found on a piece of equipment on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was not the result of a leak in an underground nuclear waste storage tank. The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that an analysis has ruled out that the contamination came from a leak within double-walled tank AZ-101...