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NWPB host Phineas Pope speaks with Doug Ray, a former associate laboratory director at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, to learn more about possible cuts to the lab.

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

(Runtime :56)The public can ask questions and learn about Hanford site cleanup during an upcoming meeting in Kennewick. It’s the first in-person Hanford…

Four utilities in Washington state received funding from the U.S Department of Energy to strengthen the electrical grid against future wildfires and ensure reliability to customers. That funding comes from the federal Grid Resilience and Innovations Partnerships Program, which is investing in 58 projects across 44 states.

A creepy old building used for 30 years to research radioactive materials from 1966 to 1996 has a lot more radioactive waste under it than previously…

The states of Washington and Oregon have submitted a joint bid to the U.S. Department of Energy to get a share of $8 billion that Congress set aside to launch "Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs" around the nation. But good luck trying to learn what exactly the bi-state bid entails, other than the safe presumption that at least one industrial hydrogen production facility would be subsidized.

Ongoing Superfund cleanup work of radioactive and other contamination at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho has been successful at protecting humans and the environment, U.S. and state officials say. The five-year review by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality also said that potential exposures in areas that aren’t yet cleaned up are being controlled.