Gov. Ferguson vows legal challenge to DOE delay of Hanford vitrification plant start. Sen. Murray condemns DOE plan to curb startup, citing $30B in taxpayer cost. Court-set deadline to start treating ...

Tim Walsh is the highest ranking official appointed under the current Trump administration to visit the site in Eastern Washington, and he wasted no time, arriving less than two weeks after being ...

Uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors was chemically processed to remove plutonium. The stew of 56 million gallons of ...

Hanford plant begins final testing phase using chemical simulants for waste. Low Activity Waste Facility aims to start treating radioactive waste by July. DOE contractor H2C set to assume operations ...

The deadline to glassify the first of the Hanford nuclear site's 56 million gallons of radioactive waste will be extended under an agreement filed in federal court. Work began to build the massive ...

In historic step, radioactive waste moved to massive Hanford treatment plant. DOE aims to produce certified glass canisters by Oct 15, 2025, under court order. Plant will glassify low-activity waste ...

The last piece of piping has been installed to move radioactive waste to the Hanford site vitrification plant, as final preparations are made to begin treating waste for disposal that has been stored ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Design changes at a new radioactive waste disposal plant at the country’s most contaminated nuclear site in south-central Washington were not properly verified to ensure safety, ...

MIT physics professor Ernest Moniz smiles as he stands on stage in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 4, 2013, where President Barack Obama announces he would nominate Moniz ...