The testing process, called “hot commissioning,” will introduce radioactive waste to the plant for the first time and verify ...

Construction started on the Waste Treatment Plant, or vit plant as it is called at Hanford, in 2002. This summer the first radioactive waste from underground storage tanks is expected to be piped ...

New Hanford site contractor That will be 23 years after ground was broken to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, commonly called the vitrification plant.

Richland, Wash. More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plan t began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for ...

A new report by the feds says cleanup at the Hanford site will take until 2086, with other work needed until 2100.

Section 3125 of the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) calls for a national labs team to develop a framework of decisions to be made among the supplemental treatment technologies, waste ...

The Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant is now testing key chemicals as part of ongoing cold commissioning. Brian Harkins, Hanford Field Office Acting Manager, highlighted the importance of ...

The cornerstone of emptying the tanks is a treatment plant that will convert the waste into grasslike logs for safe, secure storage. The plant, last estimated to cost more than $12.3 billion, is ...

Greenberry Industrial workers in Corvallis helped fabricate a 65-ton testing container that will help determine how to safely mix and process nuclear waste at the Hanford Site in southeastern ...

Framatome would invest $375 million to expand its Richland plant to develop and manufacture advanced nuclear fuel and hire 220 workers for the project. It already invests about $10 million ...

Richland's Hanford plant is moving forward with testing key chemicals to safely treat tank waste. This step is crucial for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant to be ready for full ...