The first step toward moving the casks to safer storage was modifying WESF’s aged ventilation system and filling six of its aged ventilation system and filling six of its contaminated hot cells with ...

RICHLAND, Wash. - The Hanford Site recently completed a transfer of the first batch of radioactive capsules from underwater ...

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 ...

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

More scraps of irradiated reactor fuel have been found in Hanford's K West Basin, where it was stored at the end of the Cold War. The three newly discovered scraps -- broken off of uranium fuel rods - ...

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

RICHLAND, Wash. — The Hanford nuclear reservation should not be used for long-term storage of the nation’s mercury, says Gary Petersen, vice president of Hanford programs for the Tri-City Development ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hanford moves 1st radioactive capsules from underwater storage. The capsules could break and release radiation in a severe earthquake. Dry storage should be safer and reduces maintenance and ...