Hanford workers have connected the nuclear reservation’s tank farms to the vitrification plant that will be used to treat radioactive waste in the tanks — a significant step forward for the ...

The Department of Energy at Hanford downgraded its performance assessment of the contractor building the site’s $17 billion vitrification plant because of ongoing criminal and civil ...

TRI-CITIES — The Department of Energy has announced it will pay the company building the Hanford vitrification plant $5 million in incentive pay after it received its best performance evaluation ...

RICHLAND, Wash. — Speculation that a key leader of Hanford’s vitrification plant was transferred because he blew the whistle on the project is just wrong, the employee said. William “Bill ...

The heat up of world’s largest radioactive waste melter at the Hanford site vitrification plant in Eastern Washington has not started as hoped. The melter temperature was expected to climb to ...

There’s no turning back at the Hanford site’s vitrification plant after the heat up of the world’s largest melter for radioactive waste started Saturday, 20 years after construction of the ...

based unit of Bechtel Group that is building the vitrification plant. The treatment plant will filter 500,000 gallons of water per day via underground pipes at the site—for use in treatment ...

RICHLAND, Wash. — Hanford officials can start thinking about how they will train workers for the start up the site’s $17 billion vitrification plant. Bechtel National nuclear safety engineers ...

The man was working the night shift at the massive vitrification plant when he walked out to a portable toilet just before 6 a.m., said Benton County Deputy Coroner Dennis Morris. Morris said the ...