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Three employees have filed complaints against the nuclear waste storage facility in the last seven months, highlighting an alarming trend as Hanford moves forward with a new project to convert nuclear waste into radioactive glass tubes.
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A new federal report finds problems with the welding on tanks holding radioactive wastes.
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After decades of pollution, the feds face a deadline in 2019. Seven years might sound like a lot of time but expectations of a federal request for a delay are already rising.
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A sad young heart's disillusionment with America holds this collection together. It's a thin personal thread for the weighty subject of Hanford during the Cold War and after.
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The Obama administration and Senate Majority Leader have effectively killed Yucca Mountain, leaving Hanford holding the (leaking) nuclear waste.
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The exhibit takes a different perspective, viewing the heavily contaminated nuclear reservation through the eyes of artists and poets.
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If expenses continually go up, it becomes hard to see how the legal mandates to clean up the most dangerous wastes can ever be met, at least on time.
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Questions surround the construction of a glassification plant. Will a cleanup plan create new nuclear dangers?
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A new history of Hanford tells us about the motives, contradictions, and influences that shaped the "nuclear reservation" that has changed lives and re-shaped the world.
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The Obama administration wants to keep Harry Reid and his Nevada constituents happy. Besides, after 60-some years, what's the rush?
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When authorities sent a helicopter over Seattle and Washington state to monitor radiation, they made a point of telling us what they were doing. But how well is the public being informed either here or in post-Fukushima Japan?
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A trio of physicists have spent the last 17 years in an underground bunker at Hanford, testing Newton's theory of gravity. They believe his famous law may not be as absolute as our high school science teachers led us to believe.
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Fukushima and Three Mile Island argue the limits of human planning. Some people think we could engineer a 10,000-year solution at Yucca Mountain, even though there is not a single human building older than about 6,500 years. Even though we know about chaos.
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We're living the effects of the BP oil spill and fearing a proposed open-pit mine near Bristol Bay. Should we worry about our own state's vineyards and orchards growing so close to Hanford's plutonium?
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A resilient middle-schooler burned in the Hiroshima atomic bombing 65 years ago this week, Akira 'Ken' Nakano became an outspoken, sometimes provocative advocate for peace.
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