The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is accelerating the development of microreactors for military use, a push that ...

Millstone units have older technology systems that use Long Island Sound, which is literally outside their doors, for intake ...

Capsules containing 30% of the radioactivity at the Hanford nuclear site are stored in a decaying underwater pool.

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 ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor operates under strict safety standards with skilled teams who ...

The Hanford nuclear site is preparing for many Department of Energy workers to be furloughed starting Monday. Contractor employees, who account for the majority of Hanford jobs, will work as long as ...

A recent article in the Tri-City Herald effectively explains a significant development in Central Washington: “Twenty-three years and 70 days after workers began pouring concrete to build the Hanford ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The hazardous waste left behind from decades of plutonium production is now being solidified into glass, the U.S. Department of Energy announced this week. The news came on the ...

TULARE — Hanford High School head football coach Cannon Sanchez pulled out his bag of tricks in a 35-32 win against Tulare Union on Oct. 10 at Bob Mathias Stadium. On the game's first play from ...

In historic step, radioactive waste moved to massive Hanford treatment plant. DOE aims to produce certified glass canisters by Oct 15, 2025, under court order. Plant will glassify low-activity waste ...

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 bomb to ...