The US DOE has authorised radioactive waste processing at the Hanford nuclear site's vitrification plant, 23 years after ...

The Department of Energy has made no changes to its longstanding commitment to the environmental cleanup to the Hanford ...

She put the money spent to date on designing, building, testing and commissioning the vitrification plant, with no waste yet ...

"Hanford's 56 million gallons of toxic and radioactive material pose an ongoing threat to the Columbia River." ...

After uncertainty surrounding the future of the Waste Treatment Plant the U.S. Department of Energy has given a green light ...

The 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear site has 56 million gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste in underground tanks from chemically processing irradiated uranium to remove plutonium for ...

A top Senate Democrat said the Energy secretary divulged during a phone call he's "planning to curb" work at the sprawling ...

The Department of Energy has officially approved the opening of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (or DFLAW) program at the Hanford Vitrification Plant, set to begin on October ...

The Washington state Department of Ecology, a Hanford regulator, and DOE spent nearly four years negotiating the Holistic Agreement to establish a plan for dealing with radioactive tank waste for the ...

The Hanford Vitrification Plant, a project decades in the making with billions invested, faces an uncertain future as the Department of Energy considers pulling the plug.

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 operations ...