Congressman Edward Markey of the Seventh District of Massachusetts condemned what he viewed as inaction and mismanagement on the part of the Department of Energy (“DOE”) in a letter marking another escalation in the case of a troubled nuclear waste treatment plant in Washington state.  The Hanford Nuclear Site’s Waste Treatment Plant (“WTP”), described by [...]

In a development in a case we blogged about last week, a second official at the vitrification plant for the nuclear site in Hanford, WA, has filed a complaint with the Department of Labor, reports Tacoma, Washington’s The News Tribune.  Donna Busche, the plant’s manager of environmental and nuclear safety, filed a complaint against her [...]

In a lawsuit announced Wednesday in Kennewick, Washington, Walt Tamosaitis – a whistleblower who has previously raised concerns about nuclear safety about a waste-treatment factory being built at the Hanford nuclear site in southeast Washington state – alleges that the U.S. Department of Energy took part in engineering his removal from the construction project after [...]