The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...

In 2020, a judge-directed consent decree was amended to require DOE to start treating waste at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant by the end of 2023. That extension was due to changes in workforce ...

A pipe goes from that tank farm Subramanian described to an enormous waste treatment plant ... t know if the waste is going to be shipped as a liquid or as a solid grouted form. As DOE’s top ...

It can't be burned or buried ... which is key to cleaning up Hanford. The treatment plant will turn the waste from the deteriorating tanks into glass, which can then be stored more safely for ...

The Hanford plant is the only tomato processing plant in ... City and county officials said Thursday they hadn’t been officially made aware of the proposed sale of the massive 670,000-square ...

B Plant, the Hanford Site’s earliest plutonium processing ... was to treat the high-level waste,” he said. “They couldn’t do that so they are treating low-level waste.

Mike Lawrence, manager of the most contentious cleanup effort on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, resigned in April, saying he couldn’t continue as ... plant to melt the waste at thousands ...

But until crews can get inside the building and survey it, "we can't conclusively say ... the Plutonium Finishing Plant took plutonium nitrate liquids from other Hanford chemical processing ...

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 ...