The project is finally inching forward after decades of cleaning up radioactive and chemical waste in fits and starts, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a sweep of desert that was pivotal to the ...

“Yesterday, the Trump administration began indiscriminately laying off Hanford workers in Washington state,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., in a prepared statement Friday. Workers assigned ...

Layoffs at the Hanford site near Richland included safety engineers, environmental scientists and employees who protect workers’ rights, said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., in a news release Friday.

The DOE Hanford office has 303 workers who manage the $3 billion worth of environmental cleanup work done annually by nearly 13,000 contractor and subcontractor employees at the Hanford nuclear ...

Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching forward when President Trump started his second term. By Keith Schneider ...

Workers started preparing to clean up a highly radioactive spill beneath the Hanford site 324 Building near Richland and the Columbia River in 2017. (Courtesy Department of Energy) More than a ...