The last piece of piping has been installed to move radioactive waste to the Hanford site vitrification plant, as final ...

The Hanford site is one of the nation's worst nuclear waste dumps, with construction of the vitrification plant ongoing since 2002. About 56 million gallons of waste are stored in underground ...

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 ...

Four melters are at the heart of the planned operations of the Waste Treatment Plant, or vitrification plant, to turn radioactive and chemical waste into a stable glass form for disposal.

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 ...

More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site's massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as soon as ...