Employees have been instructed to remain inside site facilities, keeping doors, windows, and ventilation systems closed until ...

Hanford Patrol union guards have been locked out of the Hanford site since their contract expired just before Thanksgiving.

According to the DOE, the alert and "take cover" orders have been lifted as of 6:39 p.m. and the leak has been isolated and ...

Hanford Guards Union Local 21 is asking a federal court for an injunction to halt a month-long lockout and prevent its ...

Hanford radiation experts said if it had been a windy day, radioactive particles could've blown around and made the situation much worse. The DOE's own experts had warned the tunnels might ...

Negotiations between the Hanford Guards Union Local 21 and the U.S. Department of Energy Contractor Hanford Mission ...

An ammonia leak prompted a take-cover alert Friday for 75 workers around the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Department of Energy’s ...

Workers in part of the center of the Hanford nuclear site were ordered to take cover indoors at 4:50 p.m. Friday. A large ...

Financial pressure.” For its part, HMIS said Hanford is being patrolled by exempt Department of Energy certified police officers and security officers. Those workers receive certification ...

HANFORD SITE, Wash. — Washington state and federal agencies announced plans to move forward with cleaning up tank waste at the Hanford Site after considering public feedback. The U.S. Department of ...

The Department of Energy contractor for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory had another strong year in fiscal 2024, as ...

In 1998, Hanford managers said they had been wrong to describe the tank leaks as insignificant for decades. It was only after a million gallons of waste had leaked into the ground that the DOE ...