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Technical troubles delay new tests at huge Eastern WA radioactive waste melter
Tri-City Herald· 3 days agoThe Department of Energy is unlikely to meet a deadline set by a federal court for the next step to prepare the Hanford site’s vitrification plant to treat ...
It Happened Here: President Bill Clinton creates Hanford Reach National Monument in 2000
Yakima Herald-Republic· 7 days agoWhen you say “Hanford” in Washington state, it elicits images of either the Manhattan Project or the...
Getting a peek inside Hanford's B Reactor before it closes for two years
Yakima Herald-Republic· 3 days agoThe clock shows when B Reactor "went critical" for the first time at 10:48 p.m. on Sept. 26, 1944....
DOE Plans to Lease Idaho Nuclear Site for Solar Generation
Rigzone· 6 days agoThe United States Department of Energy (DOE) has picked two photovoltaic (PV) projects with a...
Fire crews battle fire burning near Columbia River
KEPR Pasco· 5 days agoCrews from Franklin County and surrounding areas are battling a fire on Columbia River Road and Fir Road north of Pasco. This is a rural area, across the river from the Hanford</ ...
Tri-City Herald death notices June 20, 2024
Tri-City Herald McClatchy via AOL· 2 days agoShe was born in Kennewick and lived in the Tri-Cities area for 12 years. She was cyber security engineer for Washington River Protection Solutions at the...
Public safety, environment, healthcare and transparency: WA AG candidates talk priorities
Tri-City Herald McClatchy via AOL· 2 days agoPreviously an environmental attorney who worked for the U.S. Department of Energy at the Hanford ...
How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century
IEEE Spectrum· 5 days agoIn the summer of 1945, Robert J. Oppenheimer and other key members of the Manhattan Project gathered in New Mexico to witness the first atomic bomb test....
Retired Gen. Mattis warns of Russia-China partnership, need for U.S. citizens to unite
Tri-City Herald· 3 days agoThe nation needs to remember the hard lesson it learned with World War II, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis told a crowd of more than 400 at a Columbia Basin Badger Club event Tuesday ...
Moses Lake Airshow showcases all things airborne
Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash. via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJun. 20—MOSES LAKE — The weather Saturday, the first day of the Moses Lake Airshow, gave a whole new meaning to the word "barnstorming." "We almost didn't get the planes off the ground because ...