radioactive waste

A new federal tool called TRAC is helping lawmakers, tribal nations and even watchdogs see how contamination is moving underground in southeastern Washington.

A creepy old building used for 30 years to research radioactive materials [from 1966 to 1996], has a lot more radioactive waste under it than previously known, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

A massive melter that’s intended to help treat radioactive waste at Hanford has just been flipped on for a test – for the second time. The Hanford site [in southeast Washington state] stores about 56-million-gallons of radioactive goo waste in aging underground tanks, not far from the Columbia River. It’s the leftovers from making plutonium during WWII and the Cold War.

Long before the U.S. government made plutonium for bombs at the Hanford Site in southeast Washington [state], the land belonged to native peoples. For the Yakama Nation, the area was vital for hunting and fishing. Tribal leaders want young people to know about their legacy, and the fight that lies ahead.

Northwest officials are preparing in case a radiological event should occur anywhere in the world because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The U.S. Department of Energy is launching a federal investigation into a demolition site at the Hanford nuclear reservation where radioactive waste from…

The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to pay $136,000 in fines for allegedly mishandling waste left over from plutonium production at the Hanford…