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• Hanford active area may shrink

  March 30, 2009 in City on Page A6 KENNEWICK – The Department of Energy is proposing shrinking the portion of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation that will need long-term active management to as little as 10 square miles at …

• 9th Circuit sides with state on Hanford waste

  March 11, 2009 in Region The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the state of Washington does have authority over certain radioactive waste mixed with hazardous chemicals at Hanford.

• Stimulus package to create 4,400 jobs at Hanford

  February 20, 2009 TRI-CITIES — The Energy Department projects that $2 billion from the federal stimulus package will create 4,400 jobs at the Hanford nuclear reservation.

• Washington state, feds agree on Hanford cleanup

  February 6, 2009 in Region KENNEWICK, Wash. — State and federal officials have agreed to new deadlines for cleaning up groundwater and some radioactive waste areas at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site, but a …

• A time of transition at Hanford

  January 26, 2009 in City on Page A6 RICHLAND – Each year, the federal government spends roughly $2 billion to rid the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site of toxic and radioactive waste. Now, winds of change are blowing …

• Contract extended for Hanford services

  January 18, 2009 in City on Page B2 Fluor Hanford’s contract to provide support services at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has been extended six months. The Energy Department’s action keeps about 1,700 Fluor employees working on utilities, security, …

• Then & Now: Wrestler cleaning up Hanford

  December 16, 2008 in Sports on Page C1 Wrestlers being wrestlers can at times live life on the edge. It seems appropriate that one of them, Mike Reed, would find his calling in a hazardous business. For the …

• Ruling may clear way for Hanford payout

    December 16, 2008 in City on Page A1 The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Hanford Nuclear Reservation contractors in the massive downwinders lawsuit, raising hopes for a legal settlement for as many as 2,000 radiation-exposed …

• Hanford: cleaning up mess will require better management

  November 17, 1994 in City Last of five parts In the 21st century, nuclear undertakers will bury Hanford’s bomb-making past in the desert soil. They will demolish the brooding gray plutonium reactors that sucked water …

• Hanford’s plutonium finishing plant

  November 16, 1994 in City The Plutonium Finishing Plant was built in 1951 to turn plutonium-rich liquids into solid forms that fuel the guts of nuclear bombs. The secret, heavily-guarded facility was code-named Z Plant. …

• Whistleblower found himself out of a job

  November 16, 1994 in City When Michael Bott flagged a Hanford accounting violation seven years ago, he thought he’d be praised. He was wrong. Nine months after Bott objected to more than $200,000 in improperly …

• Hanford: Lawyers get rich on fees paid by taxpayers

  November 16, 1994 in City Fourth of five parts On a winter’s night in 1992, five lawyers sat down to dinner at Ray’s Boathouse, a fancy Seattle restaurant with a stunning view of Puget Sound …

• Hanford: the money trail

  November 15, 1994 in City Third of 5 parts The new luxury homes, shimmering ponds and golf course greens loom above the golden desert like an opulent mirage. Across town in the Tri-Cities, Cadillacs, Pontiacs, …

• Hanford: is anybody watching?

  November 14, 1994 in City (Second of five parts) Money has always come easily for Hanford. When Gen. Leslie Groves built the first atomic bomb there in 1944, his first check from the U.S. Treasury …

• The nuclear mess at Hanford

  November 13, 1994 in City Hanford is one of 17 large nuclear weapons plants in the country. Most of the approximately 75 tons of plutonium made there went to the stockpile of nuclear warheads during …

• Hanford: will it ever be clean?

  November 13, 1994 Imagine a giant tank brimming with enough deadly radioactive goo to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Now picture 177 of those tanks, all buried underground, some leaking their contents into …

• River of money at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation

  November 13, 1994 Billions of U.S. tax dollars wind like the Columbia River through the Tri-Cities before soaking into the desert sand. This flood of federal cash is supposed to clean up Hanford’s …

• Hanford timeline

  November 13, 1994 Hanford timeline

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