Hanford news

Fifty-thousand people produce a lot of trash. Who knew their dump site could be listed on the National Register of Historic Places?

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.

The Secretary of Energy's big visit to Hanford carried a big announcement: The state settled a lawsuit against the feds over cleanup timelines.

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.

We're in the final stage of taking apart the N Reactor. This week crews are demolishing what's known as the "golf ball."

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.

The "N" Reactor is being cocooned for safe keeping over the next 75 years.

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.

New jobs to save the earth.

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.

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 lawsuit over other missed deadlines remains in court.

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 across southeast Washington's Hanford nuclear reservation.

The Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington presents no shortage of work toward cleaning up the site, work that is expected to continue for decades, but managers say they will miss 23 deadlines this year because budgeted funds were insufficient