SPOKANE, Wash. - Mayor Lisa Brown is pushing back against plans to send untreated liquid waste from the Hanford Nuclear Site through Spokane, citing risks to residents and the environment.

The machine was deployed after a tunnel that stores rail cars filled with radioactive waste partially collapsed at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state. SEE ALSO: Greenland calls on ...

The 295 acres in Richland, however, is former Hanford nuclear site land, which was transferred to the Department via the Tri-City Development Council to the city of Richland in 2015 to be ...

A 42-year-old Hanford workers collapsed and died Wednesday on the Hanford nuclear site. The man was working the night shift at the massive vitrification plant when he walked out to a portable toilet ...