It was part of Chris Wright's 2-day visit to Tri-Cities and Eastern Washington.

After decades of delays, workers at the Hanford nuclear site this October finally began treatment of the 56 million gallons ...

Gov. Ferguson vows legal challenge to DOE delay of Hanford vitrification plant start. Sen. Murray condemns DOE plan to curb startup, citing $30B in taxpayer cost. Court-set deadline to start treating ...

A nuclear production facility in Washington state, called the Hanford site, once forged the plutonium that reshaped the world ...

More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as soon as ...

The Hanford site vitrification plant has filled a first container with test glass in a step toward glassifying radioactive waste to allow the permanent disposal of waste — some stored since World War ...

MIT physics professor Ernest Moniz smiles as he stands on stage in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 4, 2013, where President Barack Obama announces he would nominate Moniz ...

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 ...