Hanford workers inside the Waste Encapsulation Storage Facility use long-handled tools to rearrange highly radioactive capsules at the bottom of a water-filled pool to distribute heat generated by ...

Thirteen feet of water in the pool at the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility in central Hanford provides cooling for the capsules and shields workers from radiation. If cooling is lost and ...

The Hanford nuclear reservation produced ... So, for example, there’s this building on site called the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility. And it has these storage pools that contain ...

s Hanford waste site in Washington state now will begin with startup of a new facility in the storage area that is set to remove cesium and solids before the toxics are turned into inert glass ...

Cleaning up radioactive materials at the Hanford site, which is a federal facility ... million gallons of radioactive liquid waste stored in underground storage tanks. Trump has been slow to ...

The 56 million gallons of radioactive waste created from decades of plutonium enrichment at Hanford are stored ... we will build an interim storage facility so that we can progress the high ...

DOE has already constructed a lined landfill in central Hanford, the Integrated Disposal Facility ... The underground radioactive waste storage tanks and the vitrification plant are in the ...

With work finished in April on a major support facility, the $12.2-billion waste vitrification complex at the U.S. Energy Dept.’s Hanford nuclear ... Yucca Mountain storage site in Nevada.

The Hanford ... leak-prone waste storage tanks. Among issues that could be addressed by the negotiations is what will happen to the Hanford vitrification plant’s Pretreatment Facility.

The control room for the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Facility at the US Department of Energy's Hanford site in Washington State has been commissioned. The facility is one of four major facilities ...

Department of Energy Under Secretary Paul Dabbar toured T Plant at Hanford, where radioactive sludge from the K West Basin is being shipped for dry storage ... waste, at a Perma-Fix facility ...

Scientists studying the soil beneath a leaking Hanford nuclear waste storage tank have discovered more than 100 species of bacteria living in a toxic, radioactive environment that most would have ...