The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...

Money was made available to prevent subcontractor employee layoffs at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington the day after Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., faced off with Energy Secretary Chris ...

The public can get a rare look inside Hanford's historic T Plant as Hanford-area communities commemorate the birth of the atomic age with Hanford 70th anniversary events in October. Plans include ...

In 1945, the Hanford Site in Washington State produced plutonium for the Manhattan Project, changing the course of history. Robert Oppenheimer’s haunting words, “Now I am become Death,” echoed as the ...

In 2020, a judge-directed consent decree was amended to require DOE to start treating waste at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant by the end of 2023. That extension was due to changes in workforce ...

A pipe goes from that tank farm Subramanian described to an enormous waste treatment plant ... t know if the waste is going to be shipped as a liquid or as a solid grouted form. As DOE’s top ...

It can't be burned or buried ... which is key to cleaning up Hanford. The treatment plant will turn the waste from the deteriorating tanks into glass, which can then be stored more safely for ...

None of the pipe was permanently installed in the Hanford nuclear reservation plant ... materials for the so-called vitrification plant isn't new. The plant is being built to encase millions ...

“I don’t have any concerns,” said Dave Swank ... the Department of Energy decided to strengthen the plant it is building at Hanford to convert highly radioactive waste now stored in leaking ...

B Plant, the Hanford Site’s earliest plutonium processing ... was to treat the high-level waste,” he said. “They couldn’t do that so they are treating low-level waste.