The deadline to glassify the first of the Hanford nuclear site’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste will be extended under an agreement filed in federal court. Work began to build the massive ...

The work to turn radioactive waste into glass has begun at the Hanford Site in Washington state. Bechtel started the nuclear vitrification operations at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant ...

Vitrification plant at US Energy Dept. Hanford site in Washington state, which has begun the process to transform long-stored nuclear and hazardous wastes into inert glass for storage, will operate on ...

After decades of delays, workers at the Hanford nuclear site this October finally began treatment of the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste leftover from the manufacturing of the U.S. nuclear ...

The Hanford vitrification plant is weeks away from beginning to process radioactive waste. But now the Tri-Cities is getting mixed messages from Washington, D.C., about whether its start might be ...

As much as $589 billion will be needed to finish environmental cleanup and some monitoring at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington, but there is some good news there. Three years ago, the ...

A second legal challenge to the award of a $45 billion contract for environmental cleanup work at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington has been denied. U.S. Judge Marian Blank Horn issued an ...

Canceling Hanford waste plant would waste $30B and 23 years of work. Abandoning vitrification risks legal breaches and radioactive contamination. DOE must honor commitments and start Hanford waste ...