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KING5.com
February 11, 2018
“Once you have contamination that gets on private party's cars and then gets driven off the Hanford Site it's a big concern for us,” said Alex Smith of the Washington state Department of Ecology. Smith is the state's top-ranking regulator for the state over Hanford. On January 9, the Department of Ecology andÃÂ ...
750 KXL
February 7, 2018
Mysterious Odors Again at Hanford Site. By Grant McHill. |. Feb 7, 2018 @ 12:21 PM. RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) – For the second day in a row, workers have reported mysterious odors at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation tank farms. Two workers reported the odors Tuesday morning outside the SY Tank Farm. They bothÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
February 5, 2018
Five workers reported a suspicious odor inside a central Hanford building Monday afternoon, but declined a precautionary medical exam. Workers report odors because they could be from potential harmful chemical vapors associated with waste in the nuclear reservation's underground tanks. HanfordÃÂ ...
Mesothelioma.com
February 1, 2018
New Bill Could Help Hanford Site Workers Facing Health Conditions From Toxic Exposure Hanford, Washington - A new bill is expected to pass soon that will make it easier for Hanford nuclear reservation workers to qualify for workers' compensation, which can help cover medical expenses and lost wagesÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
January 31, 2018
The Washington State Department of Health has sent a strongly worded letter of concern to the U.S. Energy Department about elevated readings of radioactive contamination that state monitoring has found across the Hanford Site. The highest measurements were in November and December, according toÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
January 29, 2018
The Department of Energy is replacing the managers of a critical radioactive clean-up project after the continued spread of contamination on the Hanford site. The move is intended to rebuild confidence with workers and the public and show the project is being safely managed. The announcement MondayÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
January 26, 2018
A bill that should help more ill Hanford nuclear reservation workers qualify for state worker compensation may soon be headed to the governor's desk to be signed into law. The bill would require the state's worker compensation program to presume that a wide range of diseases were caused byÃÂ ...
The Columbian
December 31, 1999
For decades, the Hanford site manufactured plutonium for use in atomic weapons. Operations there played a key role in creating the first nuclear bombs, in ending World War II, and in turning the United States into a global superpower. That significance is now recognized as part of the Manhattan ProjectÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
December 31, 1999
President Donald Trump's proposed $230 million cut to the budget for the federal Hanford Site nuclear cleanup will face bipartisan opposition in Congress. The proposal for the upcoming fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 trims a Hanford Site budget that during the current fiscal year totals more than $2.37 billion.
OPB News
December 31, 1999
Reaction in the Pacific Northwest was swift to President Trump's proposed cuts to the cleanup budget at the Hanford Site. Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, called the proposed $230 million cut “downright dangerous for everyone who lives near the Columbia River.” The budget request releasedÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
November 20, 2017
An unfinished $16.8 billion complex to treat chemical and radioactive waste at the Hanford site in central Washington continues to have problems that risk explosions and radioactive releases from unintended nuclear reactions, according to a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report. The board's ...
The Spokesman-Review
November 16, 2017
Thanks to constant Hanford news covered by this newspaper, Downwinders in the Pacific Northwest can track the slow and inept attempt to clean up nuclear waste in our own backyard. Patricia Hoover's article highlighting the dragging of feet in Washington, D.C., that has affected all of us regarding ...
E&E News
November 15, 2017
DOE. Workers finish stabilizing collapsed tunnel at Hanford Site. Published: Wednesday, November 15, 2017. The Department of Energy reported yesterday that a collapsed tunnel at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation site in Spokane, Wash., has been stabilized.
Tri-City Herald
November 4, 2017
For the first time, Hanford radioactive tank waste has been sent off site for treatment and disposal. Whether it could lead to a potentially faster and less-expensive way of handling some of Hanford's 56 million gallons of waste held in underground tanks is yet to be determined. A mere three gallons of the ...
The Spokesman-Review
October 31, 2017
Tom Carpenter, the executive director of watchdog group Hanford Challenge, said the four-month delay in government officials explaining the results of the exposure and testing has become the new norm. “It's been a trend at the Hanford site for many years,” Carpenter said. “If news does get released about ...
KING5.com
October 26, 2017
Workers at the Hanford Site violated multiple state laws and regulations in August when they dumped thousands of gallons of contaminated water straight into the soil. Videos and internal records obtained by the KING 5 Investigators document three separate incidents where liquid was dumped from large ...
NBC Right Now
October 4, 2017
RICHLAND, WA – Hanford workers have begun injecting engineered grout into a waste storage tunnel near the Hanford Site's Plutonium Uranium Extraction, or PUREX, Facility, that partially collapsed earlier this year. The grout is intended to improve the stability of PUREX Tunnel 1 and provide additional ...
KING5.com
December 31, 1999
A panel of nuclear safety experts is warning that design flaws remain unresolved at the facility being built to process dangerous waste at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board says the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) could explode or ...
Nuclear Street
December 31, 1999
Hanford Site A storage tunnel that holds eight railroad cars loaded with radioactive waste from the PUREX processing plant on site, which was shut down in the 1950s, was found partially collapsed in May. It was immediately filled with soil and sand after workers on the Hanford campus spent several hours ...
Seattle Times
December 31, 1999
An unfinished $16.8 billion complex to treat chemical and radioactive waste at the Hanford site in Central Washington continues to suffer design problems that risk explosions and radioactive releases from unintended nuclear reactions, according to a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report.
NBC Right Now
September 21, 2017
RICHLAND, WA – Emergency sirens will be activated for an emergency drill on the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site tomorrow,ÃÂ ...
Los Alamos Daily Post
September 16, 2017
DENVER — The National Park Service (NPS) has announced that Becky Burghart has been selected as the Site Manager for the HanfordÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
September 12, 2017
No new estimate of the multi-billion-dollar cost to finish Hanford cleanup will be released until Jan. 31, 2019. The Department of Energy isÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
September 12, 2017
Hanford workers have freed up enough tank space in the nuclear reservation's sturdiest underground tanks for 525,000 gallons of radioactiveÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
September 9, 2017
Richard served as a Specialist E-4 in the U.S. Army from 1963-65, worked for the Tri-City Herald, various Hanford site contractors, EnergyÃÂ ...
OPB News
August 23, 2017
The study data came from the U.S. Department of Energy, which was looking to see if fish were contaminated from the Hanford site. “This (DOH)ÃÂ ...
The Daily World
August 22, 2017
“The most frightening example of this is the Hanford site in Washington state which created two-thirds of the plutonium in the U.S. arsenal and isÃÂ ...
OPB News
August 16, 2017
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry toured the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Hanford site outside of Richland,ÃÂ ...
KEPR 19
August 16, 2017
Perry's support will be critical for its passage. Sec. Perry also toured the Hanford site, to learn about the challenges and dangers workers face.
Bloomberg BNA
August 16, 2017
Enacting the cut would violate the Tri-Party Agreement, an agreement between federal, state and local authorities to clean up the Hanford site,ÃÂ ...
KUOW News and Information
August 16, 2017
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry toured the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Hanford site outside of Richland,ÃÂ ...
KREM.com
August 11, 2017
The Columbia Generating Station (CGS) is located approximately 10 miles outside of Richland on land leased at the Hanford Site. AlthoughÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
August 11, 2017
Following an all-staff meeting at 12:30 p.m. at PNNL, he will tour the Hanford site, with stops planned at the Plutonium Finishing Plant, 2268ÃÂ ...
Press Herald
August 9, 2017
Workers exposed to radiation in air at Washington state's Hanford site. The levels of radioactive materials in the air samples were 'very, veryÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
August 8, 2017
The Hanford Site in southeast Washington and Nagasaki are bound by a fate and lesson captured in a phrase from another event at the time,ÃÂ ...
Hanford Sentinel
August 8, 2017
Dag Reckhorn, Faraday Future's VP of Global Manufacturing, is spearheading all strategy and execution behind the new Hanford site.
Indian Country Today Media Network
August 7, 2017
Sen. Patty Murray, D-WA, a senior member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, secured $195.7 million in additional federalÃÂ ...
KEPR 19
July 28, 2017
HANFORD, Wash. - Demolition is underway on the Hanford facility that once produced two-thirds of the nation's plutonium during the Cold WarÃÂ ...
KEPR 19
July 26, 2017
BENTON COUNTY, Wash. -- Today top Department of Energy (DOE) leaders gave us an update on two of their most critical challenges rightÃÂ ...
NBC Right Now
July 11, 2017
RICHLAND, WA – The Department of Energy Richland Operations Office will soon conduct aerial thermal imaging surveys to collectÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
December 31, 1999
The Tri-Cities' top federal regulatory official for the Hanford nuclear reservation has retired after more than eight years in the job. Dennis FaulkÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
December 31, 1999
The Hanford portion of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park should have its first park service manager on site this fall. Becky BurghartÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
December 31, 1999
Mike Costas has been named the acting general manager of the Waste Treatment Completion Co. at Hanford. He is filling in for Scott Oxenford,ÃÂ ...
TheStranger.com
December 31, 1999
It's a pretty solid (sorry) metaphor, particularly when you consider the problems plaguing the Hanford site—which, as Oliver notes, was built withÃÂ ...
The Spokesman-Review
December 31, 1999
“The most frightening example of this is the Hanford site in Washington state which created two-thirds of the plutonium in the U.S. arsenal and isÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
December 31, 1999
Perhaps during the tour they and key Tri-City leaders can help convince you of the critical work being done at PNNL and the Hanford site, andÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
December 31, 1999
... and Immobilization Plant, and maintain the Hanford Site infrastructure to support the next 50 years of operations and cleanup,” DOE said.
The Seattle Times
December 31, 1999
... of the atomic bomb that gained its awesome power from plutonium produced at a reactor at the secret Hanford site outside Richland, Wash.
KING5.com
December 31, 1999
On June 8 approximately 350 Hanford workers were ordered to “take cover” after alarms designed to detect elevated levels of airborneÃÂ ...
NBC Right Now
March 24, 2017
RICHLAND, WA - One of the Hanford site's toughest cleanup projects can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The 618-10 project was started in 2011 to remove waste from the 300 area that was buried on the site.
