The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will move forward with solidifying tank waste at the Hanford Facility.

It took more than 23 years for the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant to be built. The site will turn a good share of the 56 ...

David Reeploeg, vice president for TRIDEC federal programs: "The beginning of tank waste vitrification is a tremendous ...

Sixteen years after the original deadline, the Hanford nuclear reservation in south-central Washington state is finally ...

The U.S. government set up Hanford in 1943 to create plutonium for the nation’s atomic bombs. That work created billions of ...

The hazardous waste left behind from decades of plutonium production is now being solidified into glass, the U.S. Department ...

Work is continuing to meet a deadline next week to start glassifying radioactive waste at the vitrification plant, but DOE ...

The Hanford tank farm contractor notified the Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council that it is looking to temporarily lay off ...

The long-awaited development is a key step in cleaning up the nation’s most polluted nuclear waste site. Construction on the ...

Hanford nuclear site begins vitrification of radioactive waste, with Washington state AG's office instrumental in progress.

The Hanford site had a Consent Decree legal commitment with the state of Washington to demonstrate "the ability of the Waste ...

Dense fog swathed California's Central Valley on Friday, putting more than 1 million residents under a dense fog advisory ...