U.S. Department of Energy

Stainless steel capsules about 21 inches long and filled with cesium and strontium at Hanford in southeast Washington are getting a new, hopefully safer, home.

A lab in Richland, Washington, has started testing large-scale batteries that could one day help store energy and make the electrical grid more reliable.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright stopped by one of the Lower Snake River dams and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on a recent Tri-Cities tour.

The government shutdown means Hanford — the nation’s largest environmental cleanup site — gets more complicated, quickly.

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…