The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that particle accelerators can crack one of nuclear power’s oldest ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started ...

Hazardous waste from activities dating from the 1940s to the 1990s is scattered across the canyons around lab property and poses threats to New Mexicans and a neighboring Pueblo’s drinking water, ...

State environment agency also ordered revise of the estimated 25,000-acre DOE site's disposal permit for WIPP—the N.M.underground repository for federal transuranic waste—to increase the volume of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rumors were flying Monday that the future of radioactive waste treatment at Hanford’s massive vitrification plant might undergo a ...

SEATTLE — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic ...

State environmental regulators will also fine the Energy Department up to $16 million for exceeding safe groundwater ...

Radioactive mill waste has largely been removed from the Colorado River site, with remaining cleanup continuing toward a planned 2029 closure.

DOE picks new leader for environmental cleanup at Hanford nuclear site in WA He brings 40 years of experience at DOE sites, including in WA, ID, NY and CO He takes over as Hanford is set to enter a ...

Congress last week approved a $3.2 billion budget for the Hanford nuclear reservation’s cleanup in fiscal 2026 — a more than $200 million increase from the prior two years. That is more than what the ...

On the desert plateau above the Columbia River, a sprawling nuclear complex the size of a midsize county still holds the most dangerous leftovers of the Cold War. At Washington’s Hanford Site, 177 ...

DOE may shift strategy at Hanford as waste plant nears initial operation. Plant construction began in 2002; deadline for waste treatment is Oct. 15. Facility employs 3,000 workers and receives $3 ...