Hanford workers remove a shipping container ... Department of Energy Touching the container would expose a person to less radiation than a dental x-ray, according to DOE. At the out-of-state ...

Growth spurs Umatilla County to push for use of small modular reactor, but the idea won’t go anywhere unless local voters ...

Former Hanford tank waste contractor Washington ... Touching the container would expose a person to less radiation than a dental x-ray, according to DOE. At the out-of-state facilities, the ...

Amid rising global conflicts and concerns about nuclear weapons, some of the world's most radioactive locations pose severe health risks due to human actions like nuclear tests, power generation, and ...

Amid rising global conflicts and concerns about nuclear weapons, some of the world's most radioactive locations pose severe ...

Production of the WWII atomic bomb was “need to know”, limited to physicists and engineers for security.  The two fission bombs immediately killed about a quarter million Japanese.

It was 'filtered,' removing larger pieces of undissolved higher-radiation-level waste, then the liquid was grouted, or encased with a concrete-like substance. The waste was then shipped off to a ...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. §Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. ∥Current address: Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 ...

The Hanford nuclear site's massive vitrification plant could begin treating waste for disposal as soon as this summer.