The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation’s two cutting-edge observatories — one of them in the Tri-Cities — ...

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.

Information about the tests was released in the 1980s. In 2005, six people filed suit in federal court alleging that radiation from Hanford, including Operation Green Run, had damaged their ...

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 ...

On August 30, 1976, Harold McCluskey, a chemical operator at the Hanford nuclear weapons plant, survived what is considered one of the highest doses of radiation exposure ever recorded.

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 ...

When the classified operation was finally disclosed in the 1980s and 1990s, those living near Hanford believed there was a causative effect between the radiation and health problems. Even without ...

Recordkeeping at Hanford could be improved to track worker radiation exposure, including to ensure fair compensation for workers who develop cancer, according to an inspection report of the ...

All the plant sites are undergoing some level of remediation. The radiation exposure incidents at Hanford occurred last year and DOE’s analysis of what happened was released publicly in March.

SPOKANE — Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are being exposed to radiation as they tear down ...