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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

151; -- The breach of a tunnel that houses contaminated radioactive materials at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has drawn attention to potential risks around nuclear radiation exposure ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to settle claims brought by 139 people with thyroid disease who believe radiation releases from the Hanford nuclear reservation caused their illnesses.

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 ...

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 ...

Hanford is not a nuclear power plant. It’s a place. Hanford sits on nearly 600 square miles of land located along the Columbia River northwest of the Tri-Cities in south-central Washington.

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 ...