Along with vitrification-plant glass-making, the deadline move allows for new timing in finalizing construction of the low-activity waste portion of the facility, the facility's cold commissioning ...

The Hanford nuclear site vitrification plant is completing key steps to soon start glassifying decades old radioactive waste for disposal in WA.

TRI-CITIES — The Department of Energy has announced it will pay the company building the Hanford vitrification plant $5 million in incentive pay after it received its best performance evaluation ...

The vitrification plant's new operators have been practicing making glass at the Low Activity Waste Facility since the first container was filled with glass at the end of 2023.

The first melter at the vitrification plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation site in E. Washington has been heated to 2,100 degrees.

Radioactive waste melter at the Hanford nuclear reservation site’s vitrification plant in Washington has glass frit added for the 1st time.

Glass has been melted inside the world’s largest radioactive waste melter at the Hanford nuclear reservation site for the first time, more than 20 years after construction on the vitrification ...

Piping has been installed in recent years to connect the tank farms to the vitrification plant, including installing a 3,500-foot underground transfer line between the vitrification plant and Tank ...

As of late spring 2022, $13 billion had been spent on the vitrification plant, according to the GAO. As work halted on the Pretreatment Facility in 2012, work proceeded on other vitrification ...

The vitrification plant’s new operators have been practicing making glass at the Low Activity Waste Facility since the first container was filled with glass at the end of 2023.

The vitrification plant’s new operators have been practicing making glass at the Low Activity Waste Facility since the first container was filled with glass at the end of 2023.