SPOKANE, Wash. - The nation's most polluted nuclear weapons production site is now its newest national park. Thousands of people are expected next year to tour the Hanford Nuclear Reservation ...

Columbia Riverkeeper is seeking records about DOE’s proposal to lease 19,000 acres of unused land at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for clean energy development.

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Environmental cleanup is underway at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation. The underground tank farms, storing waste from the past production of plutonium, are in the center of the site.

Just last week, state officials announced that one of Hanford's 177 tanks was leaking 150 to 300 gallons a year, posing a risk to groundwater and rivers. So far, nearby monitoring wells haven't ...

Books Hanford site, or ‘The Apocalypse Factory,’ fueled Manhattan Project -- and environmental disaster in Northwest Published: Aug. 02, 2020, 7:06 a.m.

The site stopped producing plutonium in the late 1980s, and soon after, the U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and Washington state reached a landmark agreement to clean ...

Starting in 1943, more than 50,000 people from across the United States arrived at the top-secret Hanford site to perform work whose purpose few knew, French said.

Environmental cleanup is underway at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation. The underground radioactive waste storage tanks and the vitrification plant are in the center of the site.