This is really a historic breakthrough. After decades of effort, we are officially turning nuclear waste into glass at ...
BOISE — The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level radioactive waste that is based on the waste’s radioactivity rather than how it was produced. The U.S.
Uranium fuel was irradiated in Hanford reactors and then chemical processing separated out the plutonium, leaving behind 56 ...
The U.S. government set up Hanford in 1943 to create plutonium for the nation’s atomic bombs. That work created billions of ...
Sweden is constructing a $1 billion nuclear waste repository located over 500 meters deep in solid bedrock, designed to ...
There are plans for two facilities at Hanford: the one now approved to process low-level nuclear waste after repeated delays, and an adjacent facility for the high-level waste that remains under ...
Gov. Greg Abbott says the U.S. Supreme Court was supremely wrong when it ruled Wednesday that high-level nuclear waste can be stored 32 miles west of Andrews. Speaking for Abbott Wednesday night, ...
The last piece of piping has been installed to move radioactive waste to the Hanford site vitrification plant, as final preparations are made to begin treating waste for disposal that has been stored ...
In a statement Thursday to Source, the governor said she is glad Holtec heard the state’s “strenuous objections,” citing the ...