She put the money spent to date on designing, building, testing and commissioning the vitrification plant, with no waste yet ...

After uncertainty surrounding the future of the Waste Treatment Plant the U.S. Department of Energy has given a green light ...

The US DOE has authorised radioactive waste processing at the Hanford nuclear site's vitrification plant, 23 years after ...

"Hanford's 56 million gallons of toxic and radioactive material pose an ongoing threat to the Columbia River." ...

A top Senate Democrat said the Energy secretary divulged during a phone call he's "planning to curb" work at the sprawling ...

The federal government will begin turning some of its worst radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation into glass ...

The Department of Energy has made no changes to its longstanding commitment to the environmental cleanup to the Hanford ...

The 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear site has 56 million gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste in underground tanks from chemically processing irradiated uranium to remove plutonium for ...

The Department of Energy has officially approved the opening of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (or DFLAW) program at the Hanford Vitrification Plant, set to begin on October ...

The Washington state Department of Ecology, a Hanford regulator, and DOE spent nearly four years negotiating the Holistic Agreement to establish a plan for dealing with radioactive tank waste for the ...

The federal government may be looking to abandon glassification to neutalize nuclear waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation ...

By John Stang washington state standard. The federal government is unenthusiastic about cranking up its biggest cleanup project next month at the Hanford nuclear site in south-cen ...