hanford leak

Three government agencies made a plan public for how to move forward and clean up radioactive waste from large, underground tanks at the Hanford site in southeast Washington.

An apparent surge in leakage from a huge tank of radioactive waste set off alarms at the Hanford nuclear site in south-central Washington. This involves…

For the fifth time in 15 years, the state of Washington is fighting the federal government in court over Hanford cleanup. The state’s top cleanup watchdog…

President Barack Obama’s budget would spend $2.3 billion on cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in 2016.But it shifts the focus of cleanup. The…

The state of Washington has ordered the federal government to start pumping out a leaking double-shell tank of waste at Hanford by September 1.This move…

We all burp sometimes. It turns out, so do underground waste tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.But it’s no laughing matter. This waste can burp up…

How much sludge can be dumped into a double-shelled radioactive waste tank before flammable gas might build up in a big bubble?That's the question…

After nearly a year of study, the U.S. Department of Energy says fewer radioactive waste tanks appear to be leaking at Hanford than originally thought.The…

There’s a new plan for cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The federal government is looking for ways to process certain types of radioactive…

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says the disclosure of a worsening leak at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is "the most disturbing news." The U.S. Department…