A team of scientists and engineers from the University of Leicester and NASA Glenn Research Center is developing a new ...

A first generation college graduate, he lived long enough to see his daughter accepted to the college of her dreams.

The Hanford Site in Washington saw more than 400 billion gallons of contaminated liquid dumped into its ground during its use ...

A Washington nuclear site that was used in World War II and was dubbed the 'underground Chernobyl ' is a disaster waiting to ...

D. Ray Smith, writer for the Historically Speaking column. Nuclear reactors line the riverbank, Hanford Site along the ...

As much as $589 billion will be needed to finish environmental cleanup and some monitoring at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington, but there is some good news there. Three years ago, the ...

HANFORD, Wash. – The U.S. Department of Energy ... The tank waste, which stems from past plutonium production, is stored in underground tanks at the site. Plans are underway to retrieve this ...

A new report by the feds says cleanup at the Hanford site will take until 2086, with other work needed until 2100.

2025 Hanford Lifecycle Scope ... That included final cleanup and disposition of eight plutonium-production reactors along the Columbia River that have already been “cocooned,” or put in ...

For now, though, most of it is stored in underground steel tanks, primarily at Hanford, Washington ... about 5 to 8 inches in diameter. In a nuclear reactor, the fission reactions fueled by ...

The Hanford Field Office and its tank operations contractor have ... Workers built A-102 and five other million-gallon tanks in the A Tank Farm in the 1950s to store waste from plutonium processing.