The nation’s new energy secretary is “passionately in support” of leaving the four lower Snake River dams in Eastern ...

The nation’s new energy secretary is “passionately in support” of leaving the four lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington intact, he said at a hearing last week in Washington, D.C.

Congress approved higher spending for Hanford those years than proposed by the Trump administration, thanks to the work of ...

Environmental cleanup is underway at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation. The underground radioactive waste storage tanks and the vitrification plant are in the center of the site.

Routinely grouting rather than glassifying some of the least radioactive tank waste has the potential to save billions of ...

Some 2,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste that had been stored in underground tanks has been shipped off the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for disposal after ...

Hanford’s transuranic waste is typically ... waste from 22 tanks that are some of the farthest from the vitrification plant for grouting and shipping for disposal outside of Washington.