Three Tri-City businessmen are taking on the Obama administration. The president gave up on plans to send Hanford waste to Nevada's Yucca Mountain. And these local leaders think you're at risk because of it.
It's something we've never been able to show you and something Hanford workers have never been able to talk about until now. Action News was inside on a day that marks the beginning of the end for the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP).
It has been a big week for Hanford. On Tuesday new deadlines and a tentative new Tri-Party agreement was announced and then Wednesday another milestone at the site.
Washington state and federal officials announced a court-enforceable schedule Tuesday for cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, ending more than two years of negotiations that followed dozens of missed deadlines.
The road to recovery might be opening up sooner than you think. Washington state was one of the last to enter this recession, now a new report says we might be the first to get out of it.
Federal contractors that were heavily fined for environmental and safety violations at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site will receive much of the $2 billion in economic stimulus money the government is spending on cleanup there.
Senator Patty Murray says she's delivering major cash for cleanup. It could mean millions of bucks in the bank to keep Hanford jobs and promises made to workers, but how much will the site get? Action News breaks down the numbers for you.
The same Blue Tooth technology you use to chat up your friends is now being used out at Hanford to find and clean up the dangerous fuels buried out at the area.