When bureaucratic roadblocks threatened to stall Hanford cleanup and eliminate local jobs, Sen. Patty Murray stepped up and ...

In this edition of Behind the Scenes at the Nuclear Waste Program, we talk with Heather Hansen, our Resource Center Business ...

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

More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken ...

The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...

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 ...

Most of the current efforts to contain the waste focus on protecting the tanks from corrosion and cracking to prevent further leakage. The vast majority of nuclear waste in the U.S. is spent ...

For now, though, most of it is stored in underground steel tanks, primarily at Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina, key sites in U.S. nuclear weapons development. At Savannah River ...

Amended Record of Decision: Idaho High-Level Waste and Facilities Disposition Final Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/EIS-0287), December 21, 2009. https://www ...