Richland
Nuclear plant to receive license renewal
RICHLAND -- The only commercial nuclear power plant in the Northwest is hosting an event Thursday to mark the extension of the plant's operating license.
Date: 05/19/2012 | Northwest
State reissues draft Hanford permit for comment
RICHLAND -- The Washington state Department of Ecology released for public comment a draft permit for regulating hazardous and radioactive waste left from decades of plutonium production at the Hanford nuclear reservation.
Date: 05/01/2012 | Northwest
Occupy Portland protesters target Hanford
RICHLAND -- About 150 Occupy Portland protesters went on a field trip to Washington state this weekend to protest nuclear war, nuclear energy and nuclear waste.They were visiting Richland, which is next to Hanford nuclear reservation.
Date: 04/16/2012 | Northwest
Nuclear plant a step closer to new license
RICHLAND -- The only commercial nuclear power plant in the Northwest is one step closer to a new, 20-year license.
Date: 04/11/2012 | Northwest
4 street names misspelled in Richland
RICHLAND -- The curiosity of neighbors talking at a picnic led Karen Miles to look into the spelling of street names in Richland.She found out that four streets named for war veterans in the 1940s and '50s are misspelled. For example Van Giesen Street should be Van Gieson Street.
Date: 04/05/2012 | Northwest
Register Tuesday for popular Hanford tour
RICHLAND -- Registration opens Tuesday for free public tours of the Hanford nuclear reservation.Seats are limited and fill up fast when registration is opened on the website just after midnight Monday.The Tri-City Herald reported all the seats were filled last year in eight hours.
Date: 03/05/2012 | Northwest
Richland schools, nonprofits conspire to help kids
RICHLAND -- Richland school officials and local nonprofits are working together to help kids overcome the effects of poverty.
Date: 03/04/2012 | Northwest
Workers exposed to radioactivity from exit sign near Hanford
RICHLAND -- An eight-person crew at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was exposed to low levels of radioactivity last month while removing an exit sign dating back from 1953.
Date: 03/03/2012 | Northwest
6 injured in DUI crash in Richland
RICHLAND -- The Washington State Patrol says two adults and four children were injured when their van was rear-ended by a speeding, intoxicated driver in Richland.
Date: 02/19/2012 | Northwest
3-year sentence in Hanford credit card fraud case
RICHLAND -- An ex-Hanford manager who admitted in a plea agreement he used a federal credit card to embezzle $487,000 was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to more than three years in prison.
Date: 02/16/2012 | Northwest
Hanford cleanup budget proposed for $2.1 billion
RICHLAND -- President Barack Obama has proposed spending more than $2.1 billion for cleanup at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site in fiscal year 2013.That's about the same amount of money to be spent at south-central Washington's Hanford nuclear reservation in fiscal year 2012.
Date: 02/13/2012 | Northwest
Remaining Hanford cleanup to cost $112 billion
RICHLAND -- The remaining cleanup work at the Hanford nuclear reservation is projected to cost $112 billion.That's the cost of cleaning up radioactive and chemical wastes through 2065 plus 25 years of oversight.
Date: 02/09/2012 | Northwest
Hanford N Reactor guard tower pulled down
RICHLAND -- The historic Hanford guard tower that stood above the Columbia River for a half-century has been pulled to the ground.
Date: 01/13/2012 | Northwest
Judge dismisses Hanford whistleblower lawsuit
RICHLAND -- A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Hanford nuclear reservation worker who claimed a contractor there wanted him off the job for raising safety concerns about a nuclear waste treatment plant.
Date: 01/10/2012 | Northwest
New concerns about nuclear waste plant
RICHLAND -- The federal government says a one-of-a-kind plant that will convert radioactive waste into a stable and storable substance that resembles glass will cost hundreds of millions of dollars more and may take longer to build, adding to a string of delays and skyrocketing price tag for the...
Date: 12/11/2011 | Northwest
Hanford report: 'Chilled' safety culture no issue
YAKIMA -- Workers who are designing and building a waste treatment plant at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site generally are not reluctant to raise safety concerns, even though there have been isolated cases where workers have said otherwise, a new report concluded Thursday.
Date: 12/01/2011 | Northwest
Contractor sues Energy Northwest over nuclear plant work
RICHLAND -- A contractor hired to perform work at the state's only nuclear power plant is suing the plant's operator, Energy Northwest, saying it withheld key information about the work to be done.
Date: 11/13/2011 | Northwest
Nanny charged with manslaughter in Richland death
RICHLAND -- A woman who was employed as a nanny has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 1-year-old Richland boy who had whiplash-type head and neck injuries.
Date: 10/27/2011 | Northwest
Hanford contractor sends 244 layoff notices
RICHLAND -- A contractor responsible for cleaning up radioactive waste in underground tanks at Hanford handed out 244 layoff notices Monday.
Date: 10/04/2011 | Northwest
Some Hanford cleanup deadlines to be postponed
RICHLAND -- Hanford regulators have agreed to let some interim environmental cleanup deadlines slide at the nuclear reservation to focus on the highest priority work, given the realities of the federal budget.
Date: 09/09/2011 | Northwest
3.7-magnitude quake rattles Richland area
RICHLAND -- A small earthquake has struck near Richland in southeast Washington. Saturday night's quake was felt by residents but police say there were no reports of any injuries or damages.
Date: 09/04/2011 | Northwest
Richland officers cleared in fatal shootout
RICHLAND -- The Benton County prosecutor has cleared four Richland police officers who killed a man in a shootout.Prosecutor Andy Miller said Thursday the officers were justified in firing on 27-year-old James Dean Schultz on June 5 after he fired two shots at them from a stolen car.
Date: 08/19/2011 | Northwest
Agency urges safety review at Hanford vit plant
RICHLAND -- Actions proposed by the Department of Energy to strengthen the nuclear safety culture at the Hanford vitrification plant represent a start, but DOE should take a closer look at the issue, said the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board in a letter released Monday.
Date: 08/16/2011 | Northwest
Ancient glass offers clue to storing Hanford waste
RICHLAND -- A shipwreck 1,800 years ago in the Adriatic Sea might give scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory better information about how well modern glass might work to contain radioactive waste.
Date: 08/12/2011 | Northwest
3,000 gallons of diesel stolen, Richland police say
RICHLAND -- Police in Richland are investigating the theft of about 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel.Wondrack Distributing reported the fuel had been stolen from its Aaron fueling station sometime early Thursday.The Tri-City Herald said the fuel is worth about $12,000.
Date: 08/05/2011 | Northwest
Workers digging up some of Hanford's worst waste
RICHLAND -- Cleanup workers have started digging up some of the most hazardous radioactive waste that was buried at the Hanford nuclear reservation when it was helping make nuclear bombs.
Date: 08/04/2011 | Northwest
U.S. settles with some Hanford radiation downwinders
SPOKANE -- The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to settle claims brought by 139 people with thyroid disease who believe radiation releases from the Hanford nuclear reservation caused their illnesses.
Date: 07/14/2011 | Northwest
DOE official promises Hanford waste will be moved
RICHLAND -- Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman says the Hanford nuclear reservation will not be the final resting place for radioactive waste that is turned into glass logs at a treatment plant.
Date: 07/12/2011 | Northwest
Without a reading, book banned in Richland
RICHLAND -- The Richland school district is banning a book, even though the committee in charge of the decision did not read the book.
Date: 06/19/2011 | Northwest
Outage extended for Hanford nuclear plant
RICHLAND -- The outage at the Hanford nuclear power plant could extend into August.
Date: 06/17/2011 | Northwest
Defense safety board criticizes Hanford project
RICHLAND -- A new report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board criticizes the safety culture at a $12.2 billion project at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Date: 06/14/2011 | Northwest
Mother identifies man killed by Richland police
RICHLAND -- The man shot and killed by Richland police Sunday has not officially been identified, but a Lewiston woman told the Tri-City Herald it was her son, 27-year-old James Dean Schultz, a Yakima Valley resident.
Date: 06/06/2011 | Northwest
Richland police shoot, kill man
RICHLAND -- Richland police responding to a report of a suspicious person shot and killed a man Sunday morning.
Date: 06/05/2011 | Northwest
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