AECOM and Atkins owned Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), the Hanford nuclear reservation tank farm contractor, earned $48 million in incentive pay, or fee, for fiscal 2018 at the site.
Meals on Wheels will receive enough money to cover full costs of 460 meals for Tri-City area seniors from Hanford’s Mission Support Alliance owners Leidos and Centerra.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds difficult to understand documents may keep ill workers at Hanford nuclear reservation from getting refiled claims approved.
Anglers turned in for money 180,000 northern pikeminnow in the Columbia and Snake rivers in 2018, helping to save salmon and steelhead from the predators.
The Washington state Department of Transportation is surveying Tri-City drivers on how to improve the congested Highway 240 and bypass highway stretch near Richland used by Hanford commuters.
Hanford vitrification plant workers, plus their employers Bechtel and AECOM at the nuclear reservation, have donated toys and $21,000 to Toys for Tots and the Local 598 bike program.
The federal government has sued the state of Washington to overturn a new law that eases requirements for ill Hanford workers filing state worker compensation claims.
DOE has extended the public comment period on its proposal to reinterpret the definition of high level radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation and other sites.
2 Hanford nuclear reservation workers were were accidentally sprayed with water contaminated with chemicals at a radiological facility at the site. 1 was given an emergency shower.
The LIGO Hanford observatory near Richland has detected gravitational waves in space from 4 more black hole collisions. The black hole detections were in collaboration with Virgo and LIGO Livingston.
A Department of Energy order could limit access to information and facilities at the Hanford nuclear reservation and other sites by a safety oversight board, the DNFSB, say critics.
The Department of Justice is threatening to sue the Washington over a new state law making it easier for sick Hanford nuclear reservation workers to collect workers compensation.
Sen. Ron Wyden and 75 public interest groups tell the Department of Energy to give more time to comment on the definition of radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation and other sites.
US Ecology, which had a deadly explosion at its Idaho site, has a Hanford nuclear reservation site used for the disposal of commercial radioactive waste.
Officials say an employee at a hazardous waste site in southwestern Idaho was killed after an explosion Saturday that also injured three workers and heavily damaged a building.
Two former workers at the Hanford vitrification plant have filed lawsuits against Bechtel, saying they lost jobs at the nuclear reservation after raising safety concerns.
More than 2,000 people criticized a Department of Energy (DOE) evaluation to close Hanford nuclear reservation underground waste tanks by filling them with grout, even though some radioactive waste remains.
This video uses animation to show how DOE and contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company would fill waste storage Tunnel 2 near PUREX with grout to prevent a collapse, while allowing for future removal of the waste from the tunnel.
