It raises the estimated cost of the vitrification plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation from $12.3 billion to $16.8 billion, with more costs to be added to the estimate as technical issues at ...

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 ...

RICHLAND — The Department of Energy may not be able to complete the Hanford vitrification plant for the projected $12.2 billion, according to an internal DOE document. The $12.2 billion figure ...

Hanford workers have connected the nuclear reservation’s tank farms to the vitrification plant that will be used to treat radioactive waste in the tanks — a significant step forward for the ...

The Department of Energy is unlikely to meet a deadline set by a federal court for the next step to prepare the Hanford site’s vitrification plant to treat radioactive waste for disposal.

TRI-CITIES — The Department of Energy has announced it will pay the company building the Hanford vitrification plant $5 million in incentive pay after it received its best performance evaluation ...

The heat up of world’s largest radioactive waste melter at the Hanford site vitrification plant in Eastern Washington has not started as hoped. The melter temperature was expected to climb to ...

The man was working the night shift at the massive vitrification plant when he walked out to a portable toilet just before 6 a.m., said Benton County Deputy Coroner Dennis Morris. Morris said the ...

The Hanford site vitrification plant has filled a first container with test glass in a step toward glassifying radioactive waste to allow the permanent disposal of waste — some stored since ...

RICHLAND, WASH. — Researchers in Richland have done what the $17 billion vitrification plant at Hanford is intended to do — turn radioactive waste into a solid glass form. Over about 24 hours ...