radiation

The Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, built in 1956, is heavily contaminated and the longer it goes without being torn down, brings a chance that a potential radiation leak could be released.

According to official news releases and other sources, two alarms that sounded at the Plutonium Finishing Plant at Hanford have resulted in a lockdown for 350 workers, but no others affected.

Many Hanford workers, including those on the tank farms (one of our older daughters works there) had their work cancelled Wednesday, while crews were busy pouring load after load of dirt and fill into a breach in one of the contaminated Purex Plant tunnels.

This segment aired on the Today show this morning! calling us "america's chernobyl" known as the most toxic place in America!  

Regular routine checks and inspections of the waste tanks at Hanford have scientists wondering about a possible 2nd tank that might be leaking. It's tank AY-101, the second-oldest of the double-shell tanks, and dates back to about 1969.

A firefighter at the Hanford Fire Station was being treated for exposure to low-level radiation after some contaminated equipment was brought to the facility.

Officials believe the thieves were after the vehicle, not the payload.

HHS, or the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday it is boosting the stockpile of treatments for Acute Radiation Syndrome.

Gov. Jay Inslee plans to tour the Hanford site to gather information about the six leaky tanks and others that could pose a significant problem down the road.

Gov. Jay Inslee raised eyebrows across the state and even the nation with his announcement this week that the six leaky storage tanks at Hanford could be oozing up to 1,000 gallons a year.