Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty-three years and 70 days after workers began pouring concrete to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, the plant has ...

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.

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 ...

SEATTLE (AP) — 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 ...

Two-thirds of added Hanford nuclear waste cleanup funding for fiscal 2024 and ahead will be earmarked for work in center of the 580-sq-mile site to launch operation of giant plant to vitrify waste ...

The curated articles focus on significant steps in handling nuclear waste at the Hanford site, highlighting plant operations, regulatory approvals, and technological advancements. Key events tie them ...

Hanford plant begins final testing phase using chemical simulants for waste. Low Activity Waste Facility aims to start treating radioactive waste by July. DOE contractor H2C set to assume operations ...

Washington's Hanford Nuclear Site has been using a vitrification process to turn radioactive waste into a stable glass form before disposal. However, the Department of Energy says they want a ...

Trump's assistant Secretary of Energy wants to meet as soon as possible with the head of the Department of Ecology.

In this new edition of this blog we are highlighting the story of Tank Waste Treatment Section Manager, Suzanne Dahl. Suzanne ...