A two-month study at Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant is testing emission controls on a new stack, using chemical simulants to ensure safety and compliance before treating radioactive waste. The ...

Suzanne Dahl is Washington’s go-to for the Waste Treatment Plant at Hanford. Her office is littered with boxes of documents from Hanford she’s reviewed.

SPOKANE — A gigantic nuclear waste treatment plant in Central Washington that has been under construction for 18 years is largely completed and soon will be ready to start processing radioactive ...

U.S. Department of Energy officials visited Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, or Vit Plant, to join in sharing the news that they’ve completed all facility construction ...

New Hanford site contractor. That will be 23 years after ground was broken to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, commonly called the vitrification plant.

New Hanford site contractor. That will be 23 years after ground was broken to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, commonly called the vitrification plant.

The findings are significant because the plant is part of the Energy Department’s 2013 initiative to fix earlier problems that stalled construction of other parts of the treatment system at ...

Hanford's hi gh-level waste treatment plant will go on line at an unspecified later date, with vitrified waste destined for long-term storage at a to-be-determined national repository. ...

YAKIMA -- The cost to build a massive waste treatment plant at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation rose to $12.2 billion Thursday, as the Energy Department announced the results of a new review by the ...

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 ...

Plans for cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste near Richland, WA are moving slowly forward. A public comment period for the latest plan ended this ...

A massive building, already partially built at the Hanford nuclear reservation’s vitrification plant, may not be needed after all. The facility was expected to prepare the site’s most ...