“We started with groundwater because we had a lot of data and it was relatively easy to show in a visual platform like this,” Kluever said. The TRAC system cost about $750,000 to start up from ...

FILE - Caution signs are shown at a gate on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Thursday, June 2, 2022, during a tour of the facility in Richland, Wash. by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.

The report plans for most cleanup to be completed in 2086, with additional activities to manage the site, including environmental monitoring, continuing until 2100. To date $65 billion has been ...

Underground Tank B-109, which is leaking radioactive waste at the Hanford site, is near a groundwater treatment system that pumps up contaminated groundwater and returns cleaned water to the ground.

Richland, WA As much as $589 billion will be needed to finish environmental cleanup and some monitoring at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington, but there is some good news there.

As much as $589 billion will be needed to finish environmental cleanup and some monitoring at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington, but there is some good news there.

The T Tank Farm at the Hanford site in Eastern Washington has 16 of the nuclear reservation’s 149 single-shell, underground tanks holding highly radioactive and hazardous chemical waste.

The T Tank Farm at the Hanford site in Eastern Washington has 16 of the nuclear reservation’s 149 single-shell, underground tanks holding highly radioactive and hazardous chemical waste.