At Hanford, in southeastern Washington, contractors have just completed much of the demolition work at the site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant ... up with a new safety plan. Jason Casper is ...

The main facility of the Plutonium Finishing ... plant. Demolition of the plant will be done carefully, with the building pulled apart piece by piece according to a structural engineering plan.

A tall double fence topped with loops of lethal razor wire still surrounds key portions of Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant ... are narrow aisles lined with floor to ceiling lockers.

Abraham says he would commit to taking the plutonium out of the state if the plan falls through, but does not want courts to be involved in national security decisions. Department of Energy ...

The building has extensive plutonium contamination in its processing cells, which are beneath the floor ... and finishing demolition of the highly contaminated Plutonium Finishing Plant.

The mishap occurred at one of the nation’s most radioactively contaminated buildings, known as the Plutonium Finishing ... plan,” he said. Seven employee automobiles were contaminated at the ...

KENNEWICK, WA — Leadership for the troubled Plutonium Finishing Plant demolition project at ... panel assembled by DOE provides feedback on a plan to correct problems and a proposed new approach ...

One of the items in the small type of President Obama’s fiscal 2017 budget was the proposal to drop funding for the Savannah River plutonium mixed oxide recycling plant, designed for converting ...

Activists who worried plans to dispose of down-blended, weapons-grade plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad ... of Energy’s proposed plan to dilute weapons grade plutonium ...

A plan to dispose of surplus plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant through a dilution process that would reduce the waste to radiation levels allowable at the facility moved forward at the ...

A total of 42 Hanford workers inhaled or ingested radioactive contamination from demolition of the nuclear reservation’s Plutonium Finishing Plant ... a new demolition plan, and a plan is ...