Workers are preparing to start construction on an 11th disposal cell, called a “super cell” because it and two others are ...

Hanford is called out in the budget as the only cleanup site that the Trump administration proposes giving steady funding, while 13 other DOE sites and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New ...

A new era at the Hanford nuclear reservation has started. The first industrial-scale processing of radioactive tank waste to prepare it for disposal has begun, site officials announced Wednesday ...

6 tanks at Hanford nuclear site in Wash. leaking Just last week, state officials announced that one of Hanford's 177 tanks was leaking 150 to 300 gallons a year, posing a risk to groundwater and ...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The federal government says a one-of-a-kind plant that will... New concerns about Hanford nuclear waste plant Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Plans for cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste near Richland, WA are moving slowly forward. A public comment period for the latest plan ended this ...

A portion of the Plutonium Finishing Plant on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland. Officials say dozens of workers demolishing the 1940s-era plutonium processing plant there have ...

Sat., April 15, 2023 A Hanford Nuclear Site worker on the job in 1994. (Oregonian archives) ... The new firm will operate the Hanford vitrification plant, ...

When the plant was up and running, using nine nuclear reactors and five reprocessing plants, it produced about 65% of the plutonium used by the US government. The Hanford Test Reactor, which was ...

Dep't. of Energy urges starting to treat plant's 56M ... government is recommending a phased start to treatment of radioactive waste now held in underground tanks at the Hanford Nuclear ...

The Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility is seen at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washington. (Photo by Jeff T. Green/Getty Images) ...