More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken ...

The cost increase to start treating some waste at Hanford to meet ... before the entire plant starts up. And it would prevent facilities that are already nearly completed from sitting dormant ...

The switchgear components of the Hanford ... plant. “Energization of Building 87 represents the transition from temporary construction-phase utilities to permanent utilities that will operate ...

of Ecology has granted permits needed for Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, known as the Vit Plant ... of Facilities systems have completed startup testing and are well ...

The Department of Energy has awarded a Hanford site contract with an estimated ... startup and commissioning of the vit plant, formally named the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.

The Department of Justice appears to be taking a look at timecard issues at the Hanford vitrification plant, after reaching ... When overtime assignments were completed, they would go home but ...

The Hanford vitrification ... by technical issues at the plant. The Analytical Laboratory is close to completion and the Low Activity Waste Facility could be completed next year.

Bechtel announced on Monday that it had successfully completed the first set of test glass pours into a storage container designed to hold vitrified radioactive and chemical waste.

But the second part is so hard that it’s an open question whether it can be completed ... the Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. But everyone calls it “the Vit Plant ...

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