The main processing facility at Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant was demolished from October 10-15, 2017. HANFORD PLATEAU / YOUTUBE – HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/YCPS75QW Listen UPDATE: Dec. 21, 2017: The Department of […]Read More
Insitu uses engines built by Orbital Corporation to power its ScanEagle UAV. INSITU Listen Story originally published Dec. 7, 2017 The U.S. Department of Energy is about start shoring […]Read More
Insitu uses engines built by Orbital Corporation to power its ScanEagle UAV. INSITU Story originally published Dec. 14, 2017 A half-dozen demolition workers may have been contaminated at the Hanford nuclear […]Read More
Christmas trees could be in shorter supply in about eight years. That’s because the nation is going through an evergreen seedling shortage now. Listen You might be in the […]Read More
LISTEN A new report about the radioactive tank waste at Hanford says the cleanup could take decades longer and cost billions more than estimated. The document, called “System Plan 8”, proposes 11 complex scenarios […]Read More
File photo. The owner of Arlene’s Flowers refused to make wedding flowers for a same-sex couple in 2013. ANNA KING / NORTHWEST NEWS NETWORK Listen Facebook Google+ Twitter Email […]Read More
After nearly two decades of work, contractors at Hanford have just finished cleaning out the first of 177 radioactive waste tanks. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Listen A major milestone […]Read More
Hanford’s Tunnel 1 has been grouted up to protect the public from further collapse at the southeast nuclear site. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Listen Remember the old train tunnel that […]Read More
The Columbia River Gorge is the Gorge is prone to landslides. And this summer’s wildfires has made it worse. IAN C. BATES Listen As heavy rains move into the Northwest, […]Read More
Now that the fall rains have begun, the fire danger at Multnomah Falls has declined. But Oregon’s popular gem still won’t open anytime soon.Read More
File photo of Tunnel 1 under construction. This is the tunnel that collapsed in May. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Listen At the Hanford Site, the job to seal in […]Read More
Hanford workers place a metal box into the soil covering the collapsed portion of Tunnel 1 at Hanford. Grout pipes will be installed through that metal box, down inside […]Read More
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Listen At the Hanford Site in southeast Washington state, a powerful group of citizens who keep watch on the nuclear reservation hasn’t met in months. Northwest […]Read More
LIGO Hanford is one of two detector sites that operate as a single observatory. CALTECH Listen Scientists in southeast Washington state announced Wednesday that they had detected two black holes revolving […]Read More
OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES Listen Geologists for the state of Oregon are warning of the risk of major landslides in parts of the Columbia River Gorge […]Read More
Pullman Regional Hospital and Gritman Medical Center in nearby Moscow, Idaho, have announced they plan to offer gender confirmation surgeries. ANNA KING / NORTHWEST NEWS NETWORK Listen Two small-town […]Read More
The U.S. Forest Service has established a landing zone in the Bonneville Dam parking area for its two Chinook helicopters that are dipping water from the Columbia River. U.S. […]Read More
The Eagle Creek fire is burning in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area near Cascade Locks, Oregon. INCIWEB Listen The forest fires raging in the Columbia River Gorge […]Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working with agencies that are responding to the Eagle Creek fire. Fire departments from North Bonneville, Tualatin, Dayton, Keizer and Hillsboro staged […]Read More
Hundreds of people gathered at the Atlas Obscura Eclipse Festival in Durkee, Oregon, to witnesss the total solar eclipse. RAJAH BOSE Listen Eclipse revelers whooped and hollered as the […]Read More
Raeann Van Arsdall says her mother angus cows don’t know what’s coming to Durkee, Oregon. Hundreds of eclipse visitors are starting to descend on their ranch. ANNA KING / […]Read More
A center pivot beats above a field with some of eastern Oregon’s dramatic mountain views in the background. ANNA KING / NORTHWEST NEWS NETWORK Listen Cell phone towers in […]Read More
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry tours the HAMMER training facility in Richland, Washington. ANNA KING / NORTHWEST NEWS NETWORK Listen U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry toured […]Read More
File photo of the Plutonium Finishing Plant at Hanford prior to demolition. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Listen Back in June, there was an emergency at the Hanford nuclear site […]Read More
File photo of PUREX Tunnel 2 during construction. A U.S. Department of Energy report says both both Tunnel 2 and Tunnel 1 are in danger of further collapse. U.S. […]Read More
Sue Olson, 94, was a Manhattan Project era secretary at Hanford during World War II. She locked her filing drawer anytime she left her office. CREDIT KAI-HUEI YAU Listen […]Read More
Listen Originally published on October 1, 2015 In southeast Washington state, a group of farms has been frozen in time. It’s at Hanford, the area the federal government took over […]Read More
Shirley Olinger, left, her daughter Sarah McCormick and mother Kazuko [Ozaki] Nishimoto have strong connections with Hanford. KAI-HUEI YAU Listen Wherever she was, she stood out for being half white, […]Read More
