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

With a need for spending at Hanford to increase to meet legal deadlines, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the vice chairperson of ...

RICHLAND, Wash. - The Department of Energy is taking strides in dealing with Hanford tank waste. The Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant is now testing key chemicals as part of ...

That will be 23 years after ground was broken to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, commonly called the vitrification plant. Progress to start treating radioactive waste “is the result of ...

Treatment would include sending some low activity radioactive waste directly to the plant's Low Activity Waste ... waste then would be disposed of at a Hanford landfill. The Department of Energy ...

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 ...

“Think Out Loud” toured the Hanford nuclear reservation in September ... tank farm Subramanian described to an enormous waste treatment plant, also known as the vitrification plant, which ...

at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant. The chemical will be used to test treatment processes before radioactive waste is used. Department of Energy The Low Activity Waste Facility has both its ...

Workers at the Hanford site vitrification plant ... and repair the ammonia system for the low activity waste treatment portion of the plant. The plant has two tanks, each approximately 24 feet ...

RICHLAND, Wash. - The Department of Energy is taking strides in dealing with Hanford tank waste. The Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant is now testing key chemicals as part of ongoing cold ...