The testing process, called “hot commissioning,” will introduce radioactive waste to the plant for the first time and verify ...

SPOKANE — A gigantic nuclear waste treatment plant in Eastern Washington that has been under construction for 18 years is largely completed and soon will be ready to start processing radioactive ...

“I’m incredibly proud of the team for this achievement,” said Valerie McCain, waste treatment plant director. “What would be impressive in any year, but certainly in 2020, truly impressive.

When construction started on the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, or vitrification plant, in 2002, it included a facility that stands the equivalent of 11 stories high to separate tank waste into ...

At full production, the vitrification plant’s Low Activity Waste Facility should be processing about 5,300 gallons of waste per day or producing about 23 tons of glass per day, filling 3.5 ...

Starting treatment of some of Hanford’s radioactive waste without sending it to the vitrification plant’s Pretreatment Facility could speed work while technical issues at the plant are being ...

The plant has long been considered the cornerstone of cleanup at south-central Washington's Hanford nuclear reservation. Design of the plant is 85 percent complete, while construction is more than ...

RICHLAND — A $13.4 billion Hanford nuclear-waste treatment plant may not be completed by a 2019 deadline because of serious, unresolved engineering challenges. “Right now, the Department of ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A gigantic nuclear waste treatment plant in eastern Washington state that has been under construction for 18 years is largely completed and soon will be ready to start ...