As much as $589 billion will be needed to finish environmental cleanup and some monitoring at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington, but there is some good news there. Three years ago, the ...

A first generation college graduate, he lived long enough to see his daughter accepted to the college of her dreams.

Two more nuclear submarine reactor compartments were floated by barge through the Tri-Cities in October on their way to the Hanford nuclear site. The U.S. Navy does not make its shipment schedule ...

The U.S. Department of Energy offers free, four-hour bus tours of the Hanford site. The tours discuss Hanford’s role in the top-secret Manhattan project - the race by the United States and its ...

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Fewer than 10 miles from where large-scale nuclear reactions began, a new kind of reactor is planned, aiming to power the ...