Hanford

The U.S. Department of Energy is finally set to start processing radioactive waste at the Hanford site in southeast Washington. NWPB's senior correspondent Anna King has been covering Hanford for nearly two decades and talked with host Phineas Pope.

A nearly two month long study is underway at the Hanford cleanup site, in southeast Washington state.

In conversations with people and businesses across the Tri-Cities, you can sense a pall over this government town.At dinners and in hushed calls with…

(Runtime 4:02) By Anna King and Jeanie LindsayTraffic crowds Highway 240 nearly every morning outside the Hanford Site’s sprawling, sage-studded…

(Runtime :59)When it comes to tank waste at Hanford in southeast Washington, cleanup has taken longer and cost more than most people ever expected.Now,…

(Runtime 1:00)There’s a new sheriff — or — rather, a Hanford safety officer in town. The Yakama Nation has started a position to help protect the way-out…

(Runtime 1:10)Dave Donovan misses Freda. She’s a 3-year-old black lab — 45 pounds of bounce and a hunter’s nose for explosives.Freda can sniff and alert…

(Runtime :56)A new Northwest-made podcast explores uranium mining and how yellowcake, or concentrated uranium, winds its way through the West including at…

(Runtime 1:01)There is a new plan for cleanup at the contaminated Hanford site.The U.S. Department of Energy, the federal Environmental Protection Agency,…

(Runtime 1:00)A new online tool is helping people see how contamination is moving through plumes underground at Hanford and other U.S. Department of…