The Hanford nuclear site contractor operating the lab that analyzes highly radioactive tank waste samples earned 95% of its ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is building a vitrification plant at the Hanford Site. Because Hanford was used to make plutonium for the very first nuclear bomb, the waste there is particularly complex ...

Environmental cleanup is underway at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation. The underground radioactive waste storage tanks and the vitrification plant are in the center of the site.

A large holding tank with ammonia vapor was discovered by workers to be leaking near the vitrification plant in the 200 East Area, according to the Hanford Emergency Operations Center. The tank ...

Delmar Noyes has been named the Department of Energy assistant manager for the start up, commissioning and integration of the Hanford vitrification plant effective Nov. 12. He will support ...

The lab also will play a major role in turning radioactive waste into a stable glass form at the Hanford vitrification plant, testing waste to ensure it is suitable for glassification. In its ...

Workers in part of the center of the Hanford nuclear site were ordered to take cover indoors at 4:50 p.m. Friday. A large holding tank with ammonia vapor was discovered by workers to be leaking near ...

The Hanford nuclear site contractor responsible for radioactive waste tanks for more than 16 years has lost $10.2 million in potential pay after claims that workers were too often idle because they ...