Northwest Public Broadcasting senior correspondent Anna King, who has been reporting on Hanford for over 20 years, joins us to talk about the people who were affected by radiation from the Hanford ...

The physicians working at Hanford reportedly knew radiation could cause illness, and they used dosimetry devices to monitor workers' exposure. They would wear badges containing photographic film ...

HANFORD — As a 5-year-old, Steve Stanton never gave a thought to a place called the Hanford Engineer Works. The towheaded boy was too busy roaming his Walla Walla neighborhood, building forts ...

Work at one of Hanford's tank farms was halted Wednesday night after radiation was detected during the transfer of nuclear sludge. The alarm was issued shortly after 9:35 p.m. at the C Farm ...

Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are being exposed to radiation as they tear down buildings that ...

Information about the tests was released in the 1980s. In 2005, six people filed suit in federal court alleging that radiation from Hanford, including Operation Green Run, had damaged their ...

About 350 people at Hanford were ordered to take cover indoors as a precaution after a monitor detected low levels of airborne radioactive contamination on Thursday. Open-air demolition using ...

Some 53 truckloads of sand and soil have been used to fill a breach in a Hanford tunnel storing equipment with high levels of radioactive contamination. The tunnel is expected to be covered with ...

SPOKANE -- A landmark study that estimated radiation doses to the public from emissions from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was conducted in part to defend the federal government from lawsuits ...

The waste in the Hanford tanks is made up of highly radioactive ... to produce proteins or other molecules that protect against the radiation," Brockman said. "Their genes appear to be quite ...

Experts have said the Hanford Site in Washington is an underground Chernobyl waiting to happen. Here's what the most toxic area in America is like.