RICHLAND, Wash.-In a historic event decades in the making, the Hanford Site recently began immobilizing low-activity, ...
FILE - A caution sign is shown on a road on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on June 2, 2022, in Richland, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling ...
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 ...
The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant 23 years after construction began, said ...
Nuclear Waste Program's efforts to oversee cleanup of one of the world's most complex nuclear sites. Join us as we look back ...
UPDATE: October 15, 2025 at 4:44 p.m. Washington Representative Dan Newhouse responded to the development of the Low-Activity Waste Facility project with the following statement: "Today is a historic ...
The US nuclear facility at Hanford, which turns radioactive waste into glass as part ...
SEATTLE (AP) — 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 ...