The Hanford nuclear site’s only attraction open to visitors is set to close later this fall for two years to get some much-needed preservation repair work. 

The company’s “knowing and fraudulent conduct resulted in the loss of many millions of dollars to the United States, while jeopardizing the safety of Hanford site workers, the public, and the environment by failing to effectively use public dollars to perform critical fire protection work,” prosecutors said.

The effort to build a new women and children’s shelter in the Tri-Cities got a big boost from a memorial fund honoring a Bechtel senior vice president who died earlier this year.

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By Robin Wojtanik
for Hanford Mission Integration Solutions 

Drivers with top-secret clearance recently hauled classified documents cross-country from Hanford to Washington, D.C. 

A tamper-indicating bolt and high-security lock secured their load: carefully packaged records documenting Hanford’s role in the Manhattan Project.

The destination?

Valerie McCain, a Bechtel senior vice president and project director of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, better known as the vit plant, died March 26 after a short illness.