The highway also feeds traffic across the Hanford reservation to the Vernita Bridge crossing of the Columbia River into Grant County. In all, the reconstruction is expected to last 3 1/2 months.

Two familiar faces at the Hanford site are among the leadership of the winning bidders to provide up to $45 billion of work at the nuclear reservation’s tank farms and start waste treatment at ...

eliminating a risk to the nearby Columbia River. It was the last reactor basin used to cool irradiated uranium fuel to be emptied. Hanford has 13,000 workers, based on the number of current ...

Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching ...

The U.S. Department of Energy picked roughly 400 people to lay off at the Bonneville Power Administration, which masterminds how 28 percent of the Pacific Northwest’s electricity is distributed to hom ...

Hanford workers remove a failed pump from ... hazardous chemical contamination in groundwater moving toward the Columbia River and in the soil. Underground tanks, many prone to leaking, still ...

Hanford is unusual in the federal government ... including to protect the Columbia River that flows through the site, with another 60 years of work expected to complete cleanup.

There are many contaminated buildings, and 56 million gallons of toxic radioactive sludge stored in aging underground tanks that leak, not far from the Columbia River. Hanford and the Pacific ...

The shortface lanx is sometimes referred to as the giant Columbia River limpet for its characteristic cone ... The shortface lanx has already disappeared from the Hanford Reach of the Columbia where ...

(Hanford’s site is nearly 400,000 acres ... of poisoned land that was leaching toxic waste toward the Columbia River 6 miles away. The Energy Department started an initiative in 1990 to ...