The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

To request an empty container or have a full container picked up, fill out the Request for Radioactive Waste Disposal form RW-50 Submit the form before Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. for pickup each week. We ...

RICHLAND — 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 ...

Tomsk Polytechnic University has been commissioned by Rosatom's fuel division TVEL to create an innovative X-ray machine designed for non-destructive testing of containers with radioactive waste.

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 ...

After years of pushback from advocacy groups, small amounts of radioactive gas can be released into the air as early as Saturday from waste containers stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The ...

A request for bids for possibly $4 billion worth of work at the Hanford nuclear site to grout and dispose of radioactive waste was released Tuesday. The Department of Energy is pursuing a two-pronged ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last permitting and licensing hurdles have been cleared to begin the long-awaited treatment of Hanford nuclear site ...

The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant 23 years after construction began, said ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic ...

RICHLAND – 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 ...