The Hanford site vitrification plant has filled a first container with test glass in a step toward glassifying radioactive waste to allow the permanent disposal of waste — some stored since World War ...
A hilltop Swedish fort built more than 1,000 years ago might help answer questions about how to best immobilize radioactive waste at Hanford. In the Swedish Iron Age, before the time of the Vikings, ...
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 ...
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The vitrification plant at the Hanford site has hit a new milestone — pouring glass for the first time since construction began 21 years ago. “This marks another important step in commissioning the ...
Hanford plant begins final testing phase using chemical simulants for waste. Low Activity Waste Facility aims to start treating radioactive waste by July. DOE contractor H2C set to assume operations ...
In Central Washington, a big problem sits in the lap of the U.S. Department of Energy: 56 million gallons of nuclear waste are lying underground in steel tanks at the Hanford nuclear site. The tanks ...
Researchers in Richland have done what the $17 billion vitrification plant at Hanford is intended to do — turn radioactive waste into a solid glass form. Over about 24 hours last month researchers ran ...
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 ...
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