Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration is actively stalling progress toward startup of the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant, Sen.

A nearly two month long study is underway at the Hanford cleanup site, in southeast Washington state. It’s looking at a new stack on the Waste Treatment Plant — and how to keep too many chemical ...

The Trump administration’s plan to fast-track construction of commercial nuclear reactors to address a power crunch around the country leans heavily on a small group of startups trumpeting a bold ...

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 ...

A Wayne County judge has granted four communities a preliminary injunction to keep hazardous waste from New York out of a Van Buren Township landfill. County Circuit Court Judge Kevin Cox granted the ...

DETROIT, MI — A state judge has blocked a controversial Republic Services landfill in Wayne County from receiving new shipments of radioactive waste. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Kevin Cox signed ...

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 ...

Finland’s Onkalo repository is nearing approval as the world’s first permanent underground nuclear waste storage site, ...

Effective nuclear waste management is a critical global challenge, particularly for countries like the UK looking to expand their nuclear power sectors. The UK has a substantial amount of existing ...

The concrete cap of a tomb encasing radioactive fallout now has cracks, and what’s beneath can rise from the dead. The U.S. military, in 1958, conducted a nuclear test on Runit Island in the Marshall ...

The Trump administration is actively stalling progress toward startup of the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Wednesday evening after speaking with Energy ...

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 ...