The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant 23 years after construction began, said ...

The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear site's vitrification plant 23 years after construction began, said ...

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The first canisters of glassified Hanford tank waste have been delivered to their final destination, the Integrated Disposal Facility, a lined landfill at the center of the Hanford nuclear site.

KENNEWICK – The deadline to glassify the first of the Hanford nuclear site’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste will be extended under an agreement filed in federal court. Work to build the ...

The Department of Energy says it can reduce risk to the environment by speeding up the treatment of 56 million gallons of radioactive waste in underground tanks at the Hanford nuclear site. It can do ...

SEATTLE — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic ...

The Hanford vitrification plant hit a milestone over the weekend, turning 100,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste into a stable glass form for disposal. The plant, named the ...

More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as soon as ...

A new way to identify salts in nuclear waste melters could help improve clean-up technology, including at the Hanford Site, one of the largest, most complex nuclear waste clean-up sites in the world.