The Department of Energy appears to be backpedaling on moving highly radioactive capsules to safer storage at Hanford anytime soon. It released a report Monday detailing its highest priorities on ...

s Hanford waste site in Washington state now will begin with startup of a new facility in the storage area that is set to remove cesium and solids before the toxics are turned into inert glass ...

This graphic shows a cutaway view of a double-shell nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site ... concern about a different tank at the facility. Both double-walled tanks were put into ...

DOE has already constructed a lined landfill in central Hanford, the Integrated Disposal Facility ... The underground radioactive waste storage tanks and the vitrification plant are in the ...

The Hanford nuclear reservation produced ... So, for example, there’s this building on site called the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility. And it has these storage pools that contain ...

Environmental cleanup is underway at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation. The underground radioactive waste storage tanks ... at the High-Level Waste Facility at the Hanford ...

The 56 million gallons of radioactive waste created from decades of plutonium enrichment at Hanford are stored ... we will build an interim storage facility so that we can progress the high ...

Buried in storage ... glass at a Hanford landfill, which has been engineered with barriers, Miller said. There's currently no facility in the US capable of storing high-level waste long-term ...

Many more of the 149 single-walled storage tanks at the ... to most workers at any nuclear waste facility rather than just federal contract workers at Hanford. The law now no longer discriminates ...

The Department of Energy staff at the Hanford ... facility work done to start moving 1,936 capsules holding highly radioactive cesium and strontium from underwater storage in a pool in the aging ...

The control room for the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Facility at the US Department of Energy's Hanford site in Washington State has been commissioned. The facility is one of four major facilities ...

Scientists studying the soil beneath a leaking Hanford nuclear waste storage tank have discovered more than 100 species of bacteria living in a toxic, radioactive environment that most would have ...