Two options that might speed up removal of radioactive waste from leaking underground storage tanks at Hanford will be evaluated, according to the terms of a settlement agreement reached Wednesday.

SPOKANE, Wash. — While one of the newer double-walled nuclear waste storage tanks at a Washington state complex has leaked, six others have “significant construction flaws” that could lead to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hanford nuclear site workers have begun to empty a 24th aging single-shell tank, this one holding about 80,000 gallons of ...

A third aging underground tank at the Hanford nuclear site is suspected of leaking highly radioactive and hazardous chemical waste into the ground, the Department of Energy said Thursday. “This is ...

The Department of Energy has awarded a Hanford site contract with an estimated value of up to $45 billion over a decade to a newly formed limited liability company. The winning bidder is Hanford Tank ...

The Test Bed Initiative demonstration is proposed to show whether some radioactive waste held in Hanford’s underground tanks, such as at the tank farm shown, could be grouted and disposed of out of ...

The U.S. Congress asked the National Academies to evaluate the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) plans for retrieval and on-site disposal of certain radioactive wastes 2 stored in underground tanks at ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) – The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site initiated ...

Hanford nuclear site workers have begun to empty a 24th aging single-shell tank, this one holding about 80,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste. The work on Tank A-106 has been ...