Announcements and Key Topics

The U.S. Department of Energy has the lead role for cleaning up the Hanford sites.

Located in southeastern Washington State, Hanford is a 586-square-mile site created in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project (America’s effort to develop the atomic bomb).

Operation of the plutonium-producing facilities continued beyond World War II through the Cold War, and a total of nine nuclear ...
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Background

The 120-square-mile Hanford 1100-Area (USDOE) site is located about one mile north of Richland, Washington. The site is one of the four areas listed on EPA’s National Priorities List (NPL) ...
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