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KHQ Right Now
January 13, 2018
(AP) - A judge is refusing to reduce the $8.1 million verdict against a Hanford Nuclear Reservation contractor and one of its employees. Mission Support Alliance and manager Steve Young also had asked for a new trial, but were denied. The Tri-City Herald reported that Judge Doug Federspiel onÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
January 12, 2018
Plutonium came into the plant in a liquid solution and was formed into pucks and powder for shipment to the nation's nuclear weapons production ... and TY tank farms storing radioactive waste in underground tanks, and U Plant, one of five large processing facilities built at the Hanford nuclear reservation.
Tri-City Herald
January 4, 2018
President Donald Trump has nominated a new head for the Department of Energy's environmental management program, which is responsible for the Hanford nuclear reservation. Anne M. White of Michigan has been nominated as the DOE assistant secretary for environmental management. “She hasÃÂ ...
Statesman Journal
January 2, 2018
(AP) — The Energy Department says it will permanently close a damaged radioactive waste storage tank on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The department says that ... The waste is left from World War II and Cold War production of plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons program. More: SmokingÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
January 1, 2018
Plans call for glassifying much of the waste at the vitrification plant under construction at Hanford. The waste is left from World War II and Cold War production of plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons program. With limited remaining space in Hanford's double-shell tanks, the state of Washington askedÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
December 21, 2017
RICHLAND, Wash. — The homes of seven Hanford Nuclear Reservation workers in Washington state are being inspected after a spread of radioactive contamination in recent days. The total number of vehicles reported to be contaminated with apparent specks of radioactive material increased to 14 fromÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
December 19, 2017
Specks of radioactive contamination have been found on eight cars or other vehicles that were parked at the Hanford nuclear reservation's Plutonium .... standing had two processing lines where plutonium was converted into pucks to be shipped to the nation's nuclear weapons manufacturing plants.
Tri-City Herald
December 17, 2017
“These robust HEPA filters have the potential to greatly improve safety across DOE and the nuclear industry,” said Bill Hamel, DOE project director for the vitrification plant. The Hanford plant is being built to turn up to 56 million gallons of radioactive waste from the nation's nuclear weapons program into aÃÂ ...
NW News Network
December 14, 2017
They test each workers' feces to see if they might have ingested some radioactive material. Those tests will take about a month to get back. The president of CH2MHill Plateau Remediation Company, the contractor doing the work for the federal government, said what's vexing is that the contaminationÃÂ ...
The Spokesman-Review
December 31, 1999
A new leader has been named for the subcontractor leading construction work at the Hanford nuclear reservation's vitrification plant. Rick Holmes ... Most of the changes were made as the focus increases on starting to treat low activity radioactive tank waste at the vitrification plant by 2022. Not only doesÃÂ ...
iFIBER One News
November 18, 2017
... money is needed for cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, ... weapons and now is engaged in cleaning up the radioactive wastes ...
KING5.com
November 17, 2017
The $15 billion plant is designed to convert the worst nuclear waste at ... Fifty-six million gallons of highly radioactive and toxic sludge is stored ...
Seattle Times
November 17, 2017
On a 65-acre site at the Hanford nuclear reservation, construction has been ... to treat chemical and radioactive waste at the Hanford site in Central ... efforts to treat the toxic leftovers of decades of atomic weapons production.
Statesman Journal
November 14, 2017
(AP) — Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state have finished stabilizing a partially-collapsed tunnel containing radioactive wastes left over from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons.
Tri-City Herald
November 13, 2017
The Hanford radioactive waste storage tunnel discovered partially ... State Department of Ecology, a Hanford nuclear reservation regulator. ... remove plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons program during the Cold War.
Statesman Journal
November 13, 2017
... Board says more money is needed to clean up the Hanford Nuclear ... near the Tri-Cities and for decades made plutonium for nuclear weapons. The site is now engaged in cleaning up the resulting radioactive wastes.
Tri-City Herald
November 8, 2017
Tank AY-102 had a slow leak of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste from its inner shell into the space between its inner and outer shells ...
OPB News
October 31, 2017
The Project Management Institute has named the Hanford nuclear ... The AY-102 Recovery Project successfully emptied radioactive waste from ...
Tri-City Herald
October 30, 2017
Nuclear waste beat out a diamond mine and an extension of the ... It named the the Hanford nuclear reservation project to empty radioactive waste from a ... production of plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons program.
The Daily Herald
December 31, 1999
... for bids for a Hanford nuclear reservation contract with an estimated ... million gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste held in ...
Energy Business Review
September 23, 2017
Here is the list of the most radioactive places on earth. ... Later it was transformed into a storage site for solid toxic chemical and radioactive waste. ... Hanford, USA: The Hanford nuclear production complex was built in 1943 as part of ... plutonium in the plant to make majority of its 60,000 nuclear weapons.
Tri-City Herald
September 22, 2017
... drills and siren tests are conducted at Hanford, where plutonium was made through the Cold War for the nation's nuclear weapons program.
The Spokesman-Review
September 22, 2017
A sign welcomes drivers to Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Benton ... cars filled with radioactive waste collapsed at the sprawling storage facility in a ... that made plutonium for nuclear weapons for decades after World War II.
Tri-City Herald
September 15, 2017
Washington state is giving the Department of Energy more time to figure out how it will safely store radioactive waste in two Hanford nuclearÃÂ ...
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 10, 2017
The Tri-Cities' top federal regulatory official for the Hanford nuclear ... Smith is the nuclear waste program manager of Hanford's other key regulator, ... of highly radioactive, irradiated uranium fuel were discovered buried nearÃÂ ...
Southside Pride
September 6, 2017
Recently a tunnel containing radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear weapons complex collapsed at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation inÃÂ ...
Chinook Observer
September 5, 2017
The biggest shroud of secrecy in the Pacific Northwest lies over the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Because of its extraordinary moment ofÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
September 2, 2017
... after the spread of radioactive contamination have put the cleanup and ... manager of Ecology's Nuclear Waste Program's waste management section. ... two-thirds of the nation's plutonium for its nuclear weapons programÃÂ ...
Tri-City Herald
August 24, 2017
... of which runs through the Hanford nuclear reservation, the state has ... of contaminants in fish, including radioactive contaminants, a variety ofÃÂ ...
KUOW News and Information
August 24, 2017
Jeannie Yandel speaks with Northwest News Network reporter Anna King about the continued problem of cleaning up the Hanford NuclearÃÂ ...
The Spokesman-Review
August 22, 2017
... trip to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, HBO's John Oliver used the polluted ... storage solution for the millions of gallons of nuclear waste.
KING5.com
August 22, 2017
The host informed viewers that nuclear waste, which he jokingly ... But leaks from waste have happened, resulting in radioactive ... One of the places Oliver highlighted was Washington state's Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Tri-City Herald
August 14, 2017
An advocacy group helping nuclear weapons and uranium workers will hold ... Cold War Patriots will help current and former nuclear weaponsÃÂ ...
The Register-Guard
August 8, 2017
Radioactive plutonium and americium have been found in air samples collected where workers enter the secure area of the Hanford nuclearÃÂ ...
RT
August 4, 2017
One worker at the nuclear weapons facility told KING reporter Susannah Frame that CH2M Hill, an engineering consultant company contractedÃÂ ...
KING5.com
August 2, 2017
It was quickly determined that radioactive particles had been swept out of a .... owned decommissioned nuclear weapons facility near Richland.
Tri-City Herald
August 1, 2017
The Department of Energy plans to step up monitoring of a Hanford tunnel storing highly radioactive waste while it studies ways to keep it fromÃÂ ...
OPB News
July 24, 2017
Options Weighed For Remaining Radioactive Hanford Tunnel ... what's known as Tunnel 2 at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington. ... essentially creating a shallow dump site of highly radioactive waste.
Tri-City Herald
December 31, 1999
A discussion of the area where highly radioactive cesium and strontium capsules will be stored at the Hanford nuclear reservation is planned Sept 21. ... in the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility in central Hanford.
KGMI
December 31, 1999
For decades, Hanford made plutonium for nuclear weapons. Now it is engaged in a massive cleanup of nuclear waste. Perry told KEPR it willÃÂ ...
Q13 FOX
December 31, 1999
Energy Secretary Perry visits Hanford Nuclear Reservation, tells employees, 'Your ... Hanford for decades made plutonium for nuclear weapons, and now is ... roof of a 1950s rail tunnel storing a lethal mix of nuclear waste collapsed. .... Radioactive Waste Cleanup Continues At Hanford Nuclear ReservationÃÂ ...
The Daily World
March 26, 2017
He also shrugged off accusations that his resistance against Trump's agenda is politically motivated, pointing out that he sued the Obama administration - twice - over waste cleanup and worker safety issues at the Hanford nuclear plant. "When I suedÃÂ ...
San Francisco Bay View
March 26, 2017
It was July 1945 when Trinity, the first atomic bomb, was detonated at the nuclear site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, followed the next month with a uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and a hydrogen bomb on Nagasaki.
TravelersToday
March 25, 2017
... and from our communities what the nation and the public was feeling then. And we leave it up to our public and our visitors to determine their own version on how the feel about the atomic bomb them and how they feel about nuclear technology today."ÃÂ ...
The Spokesman-Review
March 25, 2017
He also shrugged off accusations that his resistance against Trump's agenda is politically motivated, pointing out that he sued the Obama administration - twice - over waste cleanup and worker safety issues at the Hanford nuclear plant. "When I sued ...
Tri-City Herald
March 23, 2017
Currently, workers have the burden of proving that illnesses are caused by working at the Hanford nuclear reservation. The Department of Energy at Hanford is self-insured for workers' compensation.
Boise Weekly
March 22, 2017
Set in a stretch of brown country west of the Blue Mountains, there's an Army installation not far from town where chemical weapons were once stored. The Hanford nuclear site is only about 100 miles to the north and the Wildhorse Casino Resort off I-84 ...
Tri-City Herald
March 21, 2017
A Hanford tank farm employee called a stop to certain work at the tank farms near the end of the work day Monday over safety questions about beryllium controls.
Tri-City Herald
March 20, 2017
The Department of Energy signed an agreement with the United Kingdom to collaborate on developing robotic equipment for working with nuclear waste at sites such as the Hanford nuclear reservation. The agreement is expected to increase the exchange ofÃÂ ...
