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(Richland, WA) -- It's the largest nuclear cleanup effort in the country, and local leaders say it's underfunded. Washington Governor Jay Inslee toured the Hanford Site alongside Washington State Department of Ecology Director Laura Watson, and Ecology Nuclear Waste Program Manager David Bowen Thursday ...

(Richland, WA) -- After a two-year hiatus, tours of the Hanford B Reactor National Historic Landmark are back. “Touring the B Reactor is like stepping back into the WWII era,” said DOE program manager for the Hanford Manhattan Project National Historical Park, Colleen French. “It’s cert ... Read More ...

(Richland, WA) -- Governor Jay Inslee was in the Tri-Cities on Tuesday. The day consisted of several roundtable discussions with local personnel--starting with conversations about affordable housing and homelessness. Following talks with Richland officials, Inslee visited Pacific Northwest National Lab Staff and WSU Tri-Cities to learn more about local work being done work being done to address c

(Pasco, WA) -- The Pasco Aviation Museum received on if its largest donations ever on Monday; it was a $10,000 check from the Central Plateau Cleanup Company. "The team really believes in improving and sustaining the quality of life in our communities, and that's what facilities like the air museum do ... Read More ...

Benton County, WA--Personnel at the Department of Energy's Hanford Site will be running an emergency drill on Thursday, August 19. They'll be activating emergency sirens between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the Hanford Site’s 300 Area, near the Columbia River and approximately one mile north of Richland, and in the site’s 400 Area six miles northwest of Richland. Periodi ...

Richland, Wash.--Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) is now the first area business to join the newly-formed Kadlec Foundation Corporate Giving Society. The company made a $10,000 gift to the Kadlec Foundation at a check signing event on Monday ...

WASHINGTON-- Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell had a chance to ask questions of President Biden's nominee for Secretary of Energy, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm Wednesday.   During the Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, Cantwell pointed out that new Presidential administrations don't understand the enormity of the Hanford clean-up project, and see the Hanford budget as a first

RICHLAND, Wash.-- A Hanford Site employee is undergoing testing for the coronavirus (COVID-19). According to a message from the Department of Energy, access to the office building at 3170 George Washington Way where the employee works is restricted as a precaution until it can be disinfected ...

Here are the reported weather-related closures and delays for Tuesday, January 10, 2018: School Closures in bold are updates from this morning. • Benton Franklin Head Start - Closed. All Early Head Start home visits are canceled and will be rescheduled. • ...

The Hanford tank farm contractor responded to a letter sent by a umbrella group of 15 unions that represents workers at the facility demanding safer work conditions from chemical vapors. The Washington State River Protection Solutions says it will not agree to mandating that workers wear supplied air respirators for routine work activities in the double-shell tank farms, as Hanford Atomic Metal Tr