Articles about Hanford

Trump layoffs hit Pacific Northwest engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford cleanup, elsewhere

The Trump administration’s government-wide layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at agencies in Washington state including the Pacific Northwest National… Read More

Next-gen nuclear reactor company signs deal to build up to 12 reactors in Washington state

X-energy, a company building next-generation nuclear reactors, announced Wednesday that it has an agreement with Energy Northwest to build up… Read More

Has LIGO detected its first smash-up of black hole and neutron star? Stay tuned

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, has detected mergers of black holes, and even a couple of neutron star… Read More

Hanford sounds the all-clear after steam sparks alarm at nuclear waste site

Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington state were told to take cover for several hours today when… Read More

Tunnel cave-in sparks emergency alert at Hanford; no radiation leaks detected

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation says a 20-foot section of a tunnel system where it stores contaminated material and equipment collapsed today,… Read More

LIGO goes back to the gravity-wave grind

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory is back on the hunt for ripples in spacetime, months after reporting the first signature of… Read More

LIGO gets lit up again by gravitational waves from another black hole crash

It looks as if gravitational-wave watchers are in for a bumpy, beautiful ride. Scientists using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory,… Read More

Hanford workers detect contamination at another waste storage tank

Workers at Eastern Washington’s Hanford Site are trying to track down the source of radioactive contamination at an underground waste… Read More

All clear: Hanford toxic waste removal resumes after tank is checked for leaks

The U.S. Department of Energy says there’s no sign that toxic waste has leaked into the environment from a double-shell… Read More

Leak inside nuclear waste storage tank triggers alarm at Hanford

A long-simmering leak inside a double-walled nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site in Eastern Washington got worse over… Read More

Hanford’s scientists finally spill gravitational-wave secrets – but they still can’t tell all

HANFORD, Wash. – Physicists here had to keep mum for nearly five months about the gravitational-wave breakthrough they helped make, but… Read More

Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave quest

It looks as if scientists have chosen Thursday as the day to announce a potentially Nobel Prize-winning discovery: the first… Read More

After gravitation-wave rumors, it’s getting close to go time for Advanced LIGO results

The scientists behind the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory are getting ready to reveal their latest findings, amid a flurry… Read More