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This is a short video summary of the Levonian/Warmerdam wedding. Thanks to both families for the beautiful ceremony and congratulations to you, Chris and Emily. We're extremely happy for you and wish you the very best!!!

The Hanford site in southeast Washington is home to nine closed reactors that once made plutonium for atomic bombs. The ghostly buildings along the Columbia River are isolated and get few visitors. One of the oldest of the reactors just got a checkup to make sure nothing's gotten in or out. Richland Correspondent Anna King reports whether anything was found amiss.

Sick former Hanford workers are eligible for compensation. So are the former employees of a now defunct uranium mine on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Correspondent Doug Nadvornick reports federal caseworkers were taking claims in Spokane on Wednesday.

Federal lawmakers demanded a status report on how construction is going at Hanford's massive waste treatment plant. They want to make sure the project is safe and that it's not wasting taxpayer dollars. That report was released today (TUES) by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Richland Correspondent Anna King reports.

The feds say it's going to cost nearly 40 percent more to bore a huge tunnel into Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Why should you care? That's where Washington State plans to ship its most dangerous radioactive waste. Richland Correspondent Anna King reports.

Just paces away from the last free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River sits a infamous holding tank. The giant underground pool at the Hanford Nuclear reservation was filled with radioactive fuel rods, sludge and garbage shielded by water. The only problem? It's leaked millions of gallons of that radioactive stew. Now workers have emptied the pool of its dangerous contents. This week they started to dismantle the structures surrounding it. Our Richland Correspondent Anna King visited the site to check up on the demolition project.

Imagine radioactive goo the consistency of peanut butter. Now imagine 177 massive tanks full of that dangerous goo. Some of it has leaked into the soil at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southcentral Washington State. But federal officials say they have a final solution for this nuclear garbage. It's called the Vitrification Plant, or the Vit Plant for short. In the second part of our series on Hanford, Correspondent Anna King visited the Vit Plant the biggest federal construction project in the nation.

The Hanford Nuclear site in South Central Washington State is the most polluted radioactive waste dump in the country. At the center of the Hanford reservation are hundreds of buried tanks that hold waste left over from plutonium production during World War 2 and the Cold War. A multi year, multi billion dollar clean up is underway. But there are problems: an accidental spill of tank waste shut down clean up for nearly a year. Recently, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) raised concerns about how much longer the aging underground tanks can hold up. Correspondent Austin Jenkins reports in the first of a two part series on Hanford clean up efforts.

Hundreds of people were lining up in Richland, Washington to get their shot at hundreds of thousands of dollars. But this was no lottery. The money is being paid out to workers whose jobs at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation made them gravely ill. The federal government is reopening many cases that were previously denied. Richland Correspondent Anna King reports.

A Massachusetts scientist is spending this week standing on Tri Cities area toilets and peering under refrigerators. An Indian tribe and a Hanford watchdog group hired him to analyze dust. They want to know if lowly dust can tell us whether Mid Columbia residents have been exposed to radioactive contamination from Hanford. Richland Correspondent Anna King shadowed the scientist on one of his dust collecting missions.

Things like radioactive medical waste, glow in the dark exit signs from airplanes and lab waste have to go somewhere after they're used up. Much of that radioactive garbage is trucked through Washington, Oregon and Idaho to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. There, a little known commercial waste landfill is getting some attention from Hanford watchdogs. Richland Correspondent Anna King visited the massive sandy trench where that stuff gets dumped.

Senator John McCain is scheduled to appear at a fundraiser in Bellevue this hour (5:00 8:00 p.m.). Today (Tues) marks his first appearance in Washington State as the presumptive G.O.P. nominee for president. KUOW's Phyllis Fletcher has more.

The Thursday Night Market Place in Hanford, Calif., made its debut for this year.

Today is Earth Day (Tuesday). But many companies and institutions are celebrating something called Earth WEEK. When did the event morph? We asked Richland Correspondent Anna King to track down a little history.

Legal action continues on attempts to ban shipments of nuclear waste to the Hanford site in south central Washington State. But did you know that thousands of barrels of waste have been shipped out of Hanford, to New Mexico? Richland Correspondent Anna King explains.

Two big water users in Eastern Washington are calling for reconsideration of the biggest dam on the drawing boards in the Northwest. The proposed Black Rock dam would be as large as Grand Coulee and cost more than 6 billion dollars. Richland Correspondent Anna King has more.

A lawsuit over clean up delays at the Hanford nuclear reservation has been averted at least for now. Top state and federal officials met this week near Seattle. They made progress toward new timelines to remove and treat nuclear waste. Olympia Correspondent Austin Jenkins reports.

Hanford contractor Battelle recently (1/8/08) announced a one million dollar gift to help pay for the construction of a museum near the Columbia River. It's a big ticket donation, but not that unusual for this Mid Columbia community built around one of the largest superfund sites in the country. Richland Correspondent Anna King explains.

Workers at the Hanford nuclear site have cleaned up more than 34,000 drums of waste ahead of schedule. The drums contain leftovers from plutonium production at Hanford in the 1970s and 80s. Richland Correspondent Anna King reports.

It's the largest fine the Environmental Protection Agency has ever issued at Hanford: $1.4 million for safety violations at the nuclear waste site. But instead of writing a check, the agencies involved are buying two jet boats and a greenhouse for Tri-City residents. Richland Correspondent Anna King reports.

The Pacific Northwest has many military facilities. Washington State, specifically, has: Naval Base Kitsap: Holds nuclear submarines, a carrier battle group, and a navy region command centerNaval Station Everett: Holds a carrier battle groupMcChord Air Force Base: Holds a Western Air Defense Sector command centerFairchild Air Force Base: Holds nuclear transport aircraftFort Lewis: Holds the I Corps command center and stryker brigadesHanford Site: Held plutonium production facilities and is now the site of the largest cleanup project in the country For more information, visit: www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility https://www.nbk.navy.mil/index.asp http://www.lewis.army.mil/ http://public.mcchord.amc.af.mil/ http://public.fairchild.amc.af.mil/ http://www.hanford.gov/ Military History Podcast is sponsored by Armchair General Magazine