US DOE has completed major optimisations at Savannah River Site's SWPF and DWPF, doubling tank waste processing rates to accelerate Cold War legacy cleanup.

Hanford workers have begun retrieving radioactive waste from another of the nuclear reservation’s 149 leak-prone underground waste tanks. To date the Department of Energy has completed waste retrieval ...

Vitrification plant at US Energy Dept. Hanford site in Washington state, which has begun the process to transform long-stored nuclear and hazardous wastes into inert glass for storage, will operate on ...

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.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR recently completed an extensive piping replacement project to extend the life of the Liquid and Gaseous ...

The Department of Energy has awarded an environmental cleanup contract for the Hanford site worth up to $45 billion to a newly formed limited liability company based in Lynchburg, Va. For the second ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — A deal to address two nuclear waste storage tanks that are leaking radioactive materials into the soil in Washington state was reached Thursday between the state and the U.S.

The last piece of piping has been installed to move radioactive waste to the Hanford site vitrification plant, as final preparations are made to begin treating waste for disposal that has been stored ...

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 ...