Hanford Tank Farms

It’s a big test baby: Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant marked the arrival of its first nearly 7-ton canister of test glass. Top managers and workers…

A fresh federal watchdog report about Hanford says after a major review, systemic fraud and inadequate oversight keep happening at the site, and it’s costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Keeping the Columbia River safe is at the core of several public meetings scheduled for Seattle and Portland next week. It all has to do with decisions being made hundreds of miles away in the desert at Hanford. The question regulators are tacking: How do you keep a mostly-empty radioactive waste tank safe for hundreds, thousands even a million years?

The state of Washington has been after the federal government to keep Hanford cleanup workers from getting sick. On Wednesday, Sept. 19, they filed an agreement in federal court.

Originally published Nov. 30, 2017The unmanned aircraft industry cluster in the Columbia River Gorge is growing yet again. An Australian company that…

Story originally published Dec. 7, 2017The U.S. Department of Energy is about start shoring up another train tunnel full of old radioactive equipment at…

Story originally published Dec. 14, 2017A half-dozen demolition workers may have been contaminated at the Hanford nuclear site.Since last Friday, six…

In World War Two, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was brand new. Sue Olson was there as a young secretary. She took shorthand, pumped out calculations and…

Originally published on October 1, 2015In southeast Washington state, a group of farms has been frozen in time. It’s at Hanford, the area the federal…

This story was originally published AUG 4, 2015.In the West, there aren’t a lot of black woman geologists who specialize in uranium deposits and…