Hanford Challenge

TAKE ACTION TODAY! Submit comments by 11:59pm PT TONIGHT! 🎯Sign the petition hanfordchallenge.org/public-comments or email WIR_WATT@rl.gov with your comments. 🎯Check out our comment guide for more info, including suggested comments: tinyurl.com/2cxdaj6n

Join us this Fri at noon PT for a webinar with nuclear nonproliferation expert Lovely Umayam. Using art, Lovely explores nuclear history & politics that honor the intimacy of place-focusing on uranium mining in Navajoland & atomic bomb survivors in Japan. tinyurl.com/ps2bj2dv

Public Meeting TONIGHT! Attend in person at the Richland library or virtually on Teams at 5:30pm PT. Bring your questions for USDOE & Ecology about proposed changes that could allow concentrated liquid waste to be sent offsite for treatment & disposal. hanford.gov/pageAction.cfm…

☢️🔥 Only ONE WEEK left to submit poems to our Hot Poetry contest! If you're looking for inspiration, we've seen students write poems in response to photos. Check out these two winning poems from 2023 and 2024. For more info about the contest: hanfordchallenge.org/hotpoetry

USDOE is proposing a permit modification that would allow them to send the waste offsite for treatment & disposal. Attend the meeting to ask questions & share your thoughts with the agencies. Comments are due April 26. Stay tuned for our comment guide on these proposed changes!

Mark your calendar for 3/24 at 5:30pm PT. @HanfordSite & @ecyHanford will hold a public meeting to talk about sending concentrated liquid waste from the Effluent Management Facility offsite to be grouted at Perma-Fix & disposed of at a facility in Utah. tinyurl.com/5aa4cpu5

Try to guess this week's Hanfordle: mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=ohlgj

Tune in TONIGHT at 6pm PT for @ecyHanford's Let's Talk about Hanford webinar. Join via Zoom or Facebook Live. ecology.wa.gov/blog/february-…

⏰ 2 WEEKS to submit a poem to our Hot Poetry contest! If you're a student studying in the US this contest is for you! Submit by 3/31 for a chance to win 💵. You don't have to write a lengthy poem—a haiku won in 2023 & received honorable mention in 2025 hanfordchallenge.org/hotpoetry

Free webinar: 3/27 at noon PT! Through art, Lovely Umayam proposes an alternative intro to nuclear history & politics that acknowledges & honors the intimacy of place. Lovely will focus on uranium mining in Navajoland & the lives of Hibakusha in Japan. tinyurl.com/ps2bj2dv

Play this week's Hanfordle and try to guess the Hanford-related word! mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=iwoho

Tune in for @EcologyWA's Let's Talk about Hanford next Wed, March 18 at 6pm PT! Teresa Andre & Megan Simpson will talk about the women that lived, worked & shaped the Hanford site during the Cold War years. Join via Zoom or Facebook Live. For more info: ecology.wa.gov/blog/february-…

Save the date! The Oregon Hanford Cleanup Board meets next Tues 3/17 from 8:30am-12:30pm. Attend virtually on Teams to hear updates on Hanford cleanup from @HanfordSite, @EcologyWA, @EPARegion10 & @ODOEnergy. Meeting info: oregon.gov/energy/safety-…

#ICYMI Watch the recording of Joanna Smolko's presentation! Joanna talked about how fallout shelters were featured in American popular music from the 1960s, including a deeper analysis of Bob Dylan's song "Let Me Die in My Footsteps". youtube.com/watch?v=EtNi_f…

🔥☢️There are 3 weeks left to submit a poem to our Hot Poetry contest! hanfordchallenge.org/hotpoetry Check out the abecedarian poem where each line starts with the next letter of the alphabet. Read Sofia Torres’s poem "Hanford, my home", one of the poems that won using this style.

We're on week 35 of Hanfordle! Play and try to guess this week's Hanford-related word: mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=lidsd

Tune in to hear how 1960s popular music reflected public views on fallout shelters during the Cold War. Don't forget to register today! tinyurl.com/3jp6cdwm

🎶 As we prepare for our Scholar Series webinar tomorrow at noon PT, we invite you to listen to Bob Dylan's "Let Me Die in My Footsteps." youtu.be/eiPP1Nu_QgE?si…

Mr. Keever is represented by Hanford Challenge, Mehri & Skalet & Smith & Lowney, PLLC. ➡️ See @HanfordC's press release: hanfordchallenge.org/press-releases ➡️ Read the @TriCityHerald article: tri-cityherald.com/news/local/han…

The U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement of $3.45 million to resolve whistleblower claims brought by Hanford worker Bradley Keever against Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, alleging widespread timecard fraud at the largest nuclear cleanup project in the country.