The facility is situated on a remote Pacific Island where America carried out nuclear tests in the middle of the 20th century ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last permitting and licensing hurdles have been cleared to begin the long-awaited treatment of Hanford nuclear site ...

Gov. Ferguson warns of legal action if DOE delays Hanford waste treatment plan. Hanford’s vit plant faces uncertainty despite $30B investment and 3,000 workers. Washington state regulators report no ...

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 ...

A nearly two month long study is underway at the Hanford cleanup site, in southeast Washington state. It’s looking at a new stack on the Waste Treatment Plant — and how to keep too many chemical ...

RISING TIDE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE. RADIOACTIVE GAS WILL BE VENTED FROM STORAGE CONTAINERS AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB SATURDAY, AND SOME IN THE AREA ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT. JASON MCNABB IS LIVE IN LOS ...

A truck for Noble Environmental, the parent company of Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa., drives down a road on a rainy day. When John Quigley became the secretary of the ...

DETROIT, MI — A state judge has blocked a controversial Republic Services landfill in Wayne County from receiving new shipments of radioactive waste. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Kevin Cox signed ...

Gov. Kotek, senators Wyden and Merkley say waste should be transformed into safer solid material before being moved from Hanford, Washington Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the state’s U.S. senators, Ron ...

A memorandum of understanding aimed at strengthening their existing partnership and nuclear environmental protection and radioactive waste management in Brazil has been signed by the country's ...

DOE starts vitrification at Hanford, converting tank waste into durable glass. Plant produced glass that meets disposal standards for lined landfill burial. Vitrification frees double-shell tank space ...