Employee layoffs at a Hanford site subcontractor were reportedly averted after one of the state’s U.S. senators criticized one of President Donald Trump’s cabinet members for not providing budgeted funds. But more funding cuts may be on the horizon at the nuclear cleanup site.
Local leaders in the nuclear industry are applauding the U.S. Department of Energy’s recent commitment to provide the fuel needed for the next-generation of nuclear reactors to five U.S. developers working to bring that technology to the market.
After an extensive remodeling, these business partners have reopened a unique building jutting out over an inlet in the Columbia River as the Wheelhouse Event Center.
The long-sought expansion of Highway 12 between Wallula to Nine Mile Hill just west of Touchet continues to move forward, even as the federal government gutted various agencies and the state finalized a budget with billions of dollars in cuts.