The “National Science Foundation FY 2026 Budget Request to Congress” calls the LIGO system “the most sensitive detector of ...

Growth spurs Umatilla County to push for use of small modular reactor, but the idea won’t go anywhere unless local voters approve it Oregon House Bill 2410 would allow the state Energy Facility Siting ...

Amid rising global conflicts and concerns about nuclear weapons, some of the world's most radioactive locations pose severe health risks due to human actions like nuclear tests, power generation, and ...

Production of the WWII atomic bomb was “need to know”, limited to physicists and engineers for security.  The two fission bombs immediately killed about a quarter million Japanese.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. §Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. ∥Current address: Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 ...

The Hanford nuclear site's massive vitrification plant could begin treating waste for disposal as soon as this summer.

The Trump administration showed support for environmental cleanup at Hanford in its initial proposal for fiscal 2026 funding, calling for a much higher annual budget than it did during Trump’s ...

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- A man was arrested after an accidental shooting left a three-year-old girl seriously injured at a home in Hanford on Saturday morning. The shooting happened just after 6 ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to come.