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

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.

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 ...

The organization's 2025 "State of the Air" report reveals that Bakersfield, Visalia, and Fresno-Madera-Hanford ranked as the top three metropolitan areas with the worst year-round particle pollution.

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.

RICHLAND -- Hanford workers have removed 40,000 tons ... Some were planned to learn more about the health effects of radiation to protect nuclear workers, and some were for military knowledge.

Should I worry about radiation exposure? Spending all day glued to your smartphone probably isn’t doing you any favors. Excess phone use has been linked with a range of concerns, including sleep ...

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 ...