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• Ten managers indicted in Hanford timecard scheme

  March 28, 2013 in City on Page A6 RICHLAND – A federal grand jury has indicted 10 current or former managers and supervisors for a contractor at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site, accusing them of enabling timecard … 2

• Hanford contractor CH2M Hill to pay $18.5 million for fraud

  March 7, 2013 in City on Page A5 Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday a deal to have the world’s largest engineering firm, CH2M Hill, pay $18.5 million to resolve criminal and civil violations arising from a scheme to overbill … 6

• Hanford waste may move

  March 7, 2013 in City, Nation/World on Page A1 RICHLAND – Federal officials are looking to ship some 3 million gallons of radioactive waste from Washington state to New Mexico, giving the government more flexibility to deal with leaking … 11

• Budget cuts threaten work at leaking nuke tanks

  March 6, 2013 in Region RICHLAND, Wash. — Washington’s governor prepared to travel to the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site to learn more about leaking radioactive waste tanks there today, a day after federal officials … 21

• Spin Control: Explaining Hanford takes pivot to hoops

  March 3, 2013 in City on Page B2 OLYMPIA – As most of official Olympia stared at their computers Thursday morning awaiting the state Supremes’ decision on tax supermajorities, a handful of legislators got a briefing on something … 3

• Inslee: Six nuke-waste tanks leaking at Hanford

  February 22, 2013 in Region YAKIMA — Six underground radioactive waste tanks at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, Gov. Jay Inslee said today. 25

• Report rips Hanford work

  January 20, 2013 in City on Page B3 RICHLAND – A strongly worded new report from a congressional watchdog agency questions whether an often-delayed and increasingly expensive waste treatment plant at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site can … 1

• Hanford documents show possible safety violations

  November 22, 2012 in Region An investigation by the U.S. Energy Department has found that San Francisco engineering firm Bechtel may have committed a wide range of safety and health violations at a plant it … 1

• Groups: Hanford study underpredicted levels

  October 9, 2011 in City on Page B1 A $27 million government study to estimate radiation doses received by the public from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s weapons factories is being called into question by other scientific organizations and … 4

• Hanford nuclear plant shut down for refueling

  May 4, 2011 on Page A6 RICHLAND – Workers at the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant are nearly midway through the longest refueling outage in the 26-year history of the plant, which has come under …

• Deputies say deaths may be suicides

  December 15, 2010 in City on Page A6 The Chattaroy couple found dead in a trailer home Friday tried to commit suicide in mid-October by overdosing on medication, Spokane County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan said. The … 1

• Heavy security part of Hanford plant’s past

  November 28, 2010 in City on Page B2 HANFORD, Wash. – The Plutonium Finishing Plant at Hanford has lost much of its sinister look. Metal detectors, razor wire, guns and dogs have become part of its past.

• Workers find more radioactivity at Hanford site

  November 17, 2010 in Region Workers cleaning up the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site have discovered an area of soil so radioactive it exceeds lethal limits tenfold, the U.S. Department of Energy announced today with … 2

• Court approves new Hanford cleanup schedule

  October 26, 2010 in Region The U.S. District Court in Spokane has approved a new schedule that delays the cleanup of radioactive waste from the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site by about 20 years.

• Energy Department wants to remove Hanford reactor

  October 19, 2010 in Region A key Department of Energy report is recommending that the K East Reactor be torn down rather than put into long-term storage like most of Hanford’s other reactors.

• DOE: Hanford safety culture needs improvement

  October 7, 2010 in Region Most workers believe the safety culture at the U.S. Department of Energy’s most expensive and most complex nuclear waste treatment plant is strong, but some worry they will face retaliation … 7

• DOE endorses Hanford B Reactor for national park

  May 21, 2010 in Region Hanford’s historic B Reactor should be included in any Manhattan Project National Historical Park, along with key Department of Energy property in Tennessee and New Mexico, DOE has told the … 5

• Outside view: For Hanford to improve, Yucca must be an option

  May 13, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 This commentary from the May 9 Tri-City Herald is presented in place of the customary Spokesman-Review editorial. They aren’t exactly breaking new ground. A coalition of Northwest environmental groups recently … 1

• Two Tri-Cities companies get $7 million Hanford building contract

  May 9, 2010 in Business on Page E4 A team of two Tri-Cities businesses has won a subcontract worth nearly $7 million to design and build support buildings for Hanford’s huge landfill for low-level radioactive waste. Fowler General …

• Wash. congressmen discuss nuclear fuel storage

  May 7, 2010 in Business, Region U.S. Reps. Doc Hastings and Jay Inslee say they will fight to keep the federal government from abandoning a proposed nuclear waste repository in Nevada. 1

• Hanford deadlines changing

  April 23, 2010 in City on Page A7 TRI-CITIES, Wash. – The Department of Energy and its regulators have agreed to new legally binding environmental cleanup deadlines for radioactive waste that has been temporarily buried at central Hanford …

• New Hanford radiation cleanup deadlines proposed

  April 22, 2010 in City The Department of Energy and its regulators have agreed to new legally binding environmental cleanup deadlines for radioactive waste that has been temporarily buried at central Hanford since 1970.

• Washington sues to keep Yucca alive

  April 14, 2010 in City on Page A6 YAKIMA – Washington state filed suit Tuesday to stop the federal government from permanently abandoning the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, marking the latest clash in a long-standing dispute over … 1

• Wash. sues to stop feds from abandoning Yucca

  April 13, 2010 in Nation/World, Region Washington state has filed suit to stop the federal government from permanently abandoning the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, marking the latest clash in a long-standing dispute over where the … 1

• 2 charged in Hanford wire fraud

  March 31, 2010 in Business A former Hanford manager and his wife are facing criminal charges for allegedly using a company credit card to spend $487,000 on personal items.

• Hanford waste stranded by Yucca Mountain decision

  March 29, 2010 in City The tanks are still there, 177 in all, packed with 53 million gallons of radioactive waste. One million gallons have leached into the desert soil. 14

• Hanford’s risks are large

  February 24, 2010 in Idaho on Page A5 Even after billions of dollars are spent cleaning up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, radioactive waste could threaten the Columbia River for thousands of years to come. A government analysis shows …

• In brief: Energy Department to discuss Hanford

  February 23, 2010 in City on Page A6 The cleanup of underground storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation will be the topic of a public meeting from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. tonight at the Red Lion …

• Swarm of small quakes in past year under Hanford

  February 1, 2010 in Region In the past year about 2,000 small quakes have rattled an area under the Hanford nuclear reservation. 1

• More ex-Hanford workers may be eligible for money

  December 16, 2009 in Region More former workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation may be eligible for compensation for developing cancer due to radiation exposure.

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