Money to pay Hanford workers was instead used to pay personal debts and credit card balances, say investigators.

The Hanford site adjacent to Richland was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program. Since 1989 work has ...

Layoffs at the Hanford site near Richland included ... research on energy storage and nuclear security. Before the layoffs Thursday, more than 30 Hanford workers voluntarily stepped down as ...

That incudes the Savannah River National Laboratory in Jackson, South Carolina; the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington state, where workers secure 177 high-level waste tanks from the site’s previous ...

A unique exchange program is linking the Tri-Cities with universities in Japan, focusing on the shared nuclear history of both regions.

Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching ...

Yakima U.S. Courthouse Cory McCoy Tri-City Herald file The money was intended to retain and maintain payroll for Hanford site workers assigned to the nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington and ...

The Department of Energy staff at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington now has had almost 50 people in a staff of about 300 laid off and more cuts may be coming. The reduction so far is ...

Layoffs at the Hanford site included safety engineers and scientists, Sen. Patty Murray said. Hundreds of other federal workers in the state lost their jobs too.

The money was intended to retain and maintain payroll for Hanford site workers assigned to the nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington and also a few Department of Veterans Affairs workers ...