The Hanford nuclear site vitrification plant is completing key steps to soon start glassifying decades old radioactive waste for disposal in WA.

A massive building, already partially built at the Hanford nuclear reservation’s vitrification plant, may not be needed after all. The facility was expected to prepare the site’s most ...

Glass poured at vitrification plant On Oct. 26 about 900 pounds of glass was poured into a stainless steel container, located below the melter in a “pour cave,” to fill about 10% of the container.

New Hanford site contractor. That will be 23 years after ground was broken to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, commonly called the vitrification plant.

News; Washington; After 20-plus years radioactive waste melting plant at Hanford site takes key step forward Aug. 8, 2023 Updated Tue., Aug. 8, 2023 at 9:28 p.m. For the first time in more than 20 ...

The vitrification plant at the Hanford site has hit a new milestone — pouring glass for the first time since construction began 21 years ago. “This marks another important step in ...

The High Level Waste Facility is still under construction at the vitrification plant to treat the most radioactive waste in Hanford’s underground storage tanks. A federal court consent decree ...

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 ...

YAKIMA -- The cost to build a massive waste treatment plant at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation rose to $12.2 billion Thursday, as the Energy Department announced the results of a new review by the ...

New Hanford site contractor. That will be 23 years after ground was broken to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, commonly called the vitrification plant.

A massive building, already partially built at the Hanford nuclear reservation’s vitrification plant, may not be needed after all. The facility was expected to prepare the site’s most ...

A massive building, already partially built at the Hanford nuclear reservation’s vitrification plant, may not be needed after all. The facility was expected to prepare the site’s most ...