The Hanford Waste Treatment Plant has now turned more than 100,000 gallons of tank waste into glass, marking a key step in ...

More than 19 million tons of contaminated waste have been disposed of in the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility, the central Hanford landfill. Department of Energy DOE ready to start ...

The Hanford Waste Treatment Plant has successfully solidified more than 100,000 gallons of Hanford tank waste into glass, ...

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 vitrification plant at the Hanford site has hit a new milestone — pouring glass for the first time since construction began 21 years ago. “This marks another important step in commissioning the ...

A competing bidder has filed a lawsuit over the award of a Department of Energy contract valued at up to $45 billion for emptying Hanford’s underground tanks of radioactive waste and starting to treat ...

HANFORD, Wash. – Glass has been melted inside the world’s largest radioactive waste melter at the Hanford nuclear reservation site for the first time, more than 20 years after construction on the ...

DOE ready to start construction of $95M project at Hanford nuclear site It will allow the continued disposal of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste. Funding was triggered by congressional ...