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 ...

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 ...