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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The deadline to glassify the first of the Hanford nuclear site’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste will be extended under an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hands wearing thick safety gloves hold metal tongs holding a container with a molten substance pouring out onto a tray on a counter. Before nuclear waste could be transformed into glass at the Hanford ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty-three years and 70 days after workers began pouring concrete to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, the plant has ...

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 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 ...

DOE starts vitrification at Hanford, converting tank waste into durable glass. Plant produced glass that meets disposal standards for lined landfill burial. Vitrification frees double-shell tank space ...