More than a dozen Department of Energy workers were fired this month at a central Washington nuclear cleanup site, with at ...

The Trump administration layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford, NOAA, the Bonneville Power ...

In the site's early days, plutonium would be sent from Hanford to the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where Manhattan ...

The lab also will play a major role in turning radioactive waste into a stable glass form at the Hanford vitrification plant ... nearly two-thirds of the plutonium from World War II through ...

The US Department of Energy oversees Hanford. It's a Cold War-era facility that led US production of plutonium for use in tens of thousands of nuclear weapons. The site no longer produces plutonium.

Workers in part of the center of the Hanford ... plutonium from World War II through the Cold War for the nation’s nuclear weapons program. The 200 East Area also has the vitrification plant ...

Today, an estimated 56 million gallons of radioactive waste remains at Hanford, much of it in storage tanks that are known to be leaking. Considering that the site sits near the Columbia River, about ...

According to NBC, some nuclear experts have said Hanford is "an underground Chernobyl waiting to happen." Hanford produced the plutonium to ... a waste management plant that will turn the waste ...

The Hanford site was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce two-thirds of the nation’s plutonium for nuclear weapons, leading to major contamination. Federal employees at the ...

The Hanford site was established as part of the Manhattan Project, which resulted in development of the first atomic bomb during World War II. For decades after, plutonium for the U.S. nuclear ...