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

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

The Hanford nuclear site's massive vitrification plant could begin treating waste for disposal as soon as this summer.

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 ...

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 ...

RICHLAND — 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 ...

“Think Out Loud” toured the Hanford nuclear reservation ... described to an enormous waste treatment plant, also known as the vitrification plant, which will process the radioactive material.

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.

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. On Thursday ...