Layoffs at the Hanford site near Richland included safety engineers, environmental scientists and employees who protect workers’ rights, said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., in a news release Friday.

Workers started preparing to clean up a highly radioactive spill beneath the Hanford site 324 Building near Richland and the Columbia River in 2017. (Courtesy Department of Energy) More than a ...

Environmental cleanup is underway at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington after the site was used to produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program. Department of ...

Dan Newhouse, R-Wash. He said he has shared that message with the White House as Tri-Cities federal workers who provide oversight for the Hanford nuclear site and Pacific Northwest National ...

But time will tell.” Murray said about 12,000 contract workers are at the Hanford site cleaning up radioactive waste. Reeploeg said there are 300 or so federal employees. Murray said her ...

SEATTLE — The Trump administration's reported decision to fire hundreds of employees who were part of the nation's nuclear system, including some at the Hanford nuclear site in central ...

“We are talking about safety engineers at the Hanford nuclear cleanup site, VA doctors and nurses, utility line workers in my home state, [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] health ...

Washington Senator Patty Murray spoke out on Friday after “mass firings” from the Hanford site and the Bonneville Power Administration amid efforts by the Trump administration to purge the ...