After trying and failing to carve out more exceptions to Wyoming’s longstanding ban against storing radioactive nuclear power plant waste earlier this year, lawmakers will take another swing at gainin ...

The Hanford nuclear site's massive vitrification plant could begin treating waste for disposal as soon as this summer.

Money was made available to prevent subcontractor employee layoffs at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington the day after Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., faced off with Energy Secretary Chris ...

Japan plans to use some of the slightly radioactive soil removed from across Fukushima prefecture on flower beds outside ...

More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken ...

RICHLAND, Wash. - The Department of Energy is taking strides in dealing with Hanford tank waste. The Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant is now testing key chemicals as part of ...

On Friday, the Trump administration issued a series of executive orders intended to revive the US nuclear industry. These ...

The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...