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What Trump’s 2nd term could mean for Washington’s toxic sludge at Hanford site
Traffic crowds Highway 240 nearly every morning outside the Hanford Site’s sprawling, sage-studded industrial complex. This site churned out plutonium for nuclear weapons during World War II and ...
Long-serving Tri-Cities ‘old-style Republican’ lawmaker with an independent streak dies
Shirley Hankins, who represented the Tri-Cities in the Washington state Legislature for 24 years as a moderate Republican ...
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Long-serving Tri-Cities ‘old-style Republican’ lawmaker with an independent streak dies
Shirley Hankins, who represented the Tri-Cities in the Washington state ... Hankins was a pro-Hanford nuclear site vote at a time when the reservation’s defense and waste operations were under ...
Hanford nuclear site contractor dinged $10.2M for claims of some ‘excessively’ idle workers
The Hanford nuclear site contractor responsible for radioactive waste tanks for more than 16 years has lost $10.2 million in potential pay after claims that workers were too often idle because they ...
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Hanford nuclear site contractor dinged $10.2M for claims of some ‘excessively’ idle workers
Washington River Protection Solutions ... Environmental cleanup is underway at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation. The underground radioactive waste storage tanks and the ...
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Tribes, environmentalists gather forces against Amazon’s Northwest nuclear plan
Amazon announced in October that it plans to build nuclear reactors in southeast Washington that ... Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation has ceded land at Hanford and has opposed SMRs ...