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The 56 million gallons of radioactive waste created from decades of plutonium enrichment at Hanford are stored in 177 massive, underground tanks on 18 different “farms” spread out over the 580 square ...

The Department of Energy and its regulators have released a revised path forward for DOE’s most costly liability in the nation — the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste stored in leak-prone ...

There is a new plan for cleanup at the contaminated Hanford site. The U.S. Department of Energy, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and Washington State Department of Ecology Monday ...

The company constructing the massive vitrification plant at the Hanford site in Eastern Washington has been awarded $9.5 million in incentive pay for its work last year on the plant’s High Level Waste ...

These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as ...

The last piece of piping has been installed to move radioactive waste to the Hanford site vitrification plant, as final preparations are made to begin treating waste for disposal that has been stored ...

The Hanford nuclear reservation in Southeastern Washington was the epicenter of plutonium enrichment during WW II and through the Cold War. For more than 20 years, an effort to safely dispose and ...

For 7 decades, 177 tanks of radioactive waste have lain stagnant under a now-decommissioned nuclear production complex in Hanford, Washington. The site was the home of the first full-scale plutonium ...

After decades of delays, workers at the Hanford nuclear site this October finally began treatment of the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste leftover from the manufacturing of the U.S. nuclear ...