US DOE has completed major optimisations at Savannah River Site's SWPF and DWPF, doubling tank waste processing rates to accelerate Cold War legacy cleanup.

Vitrification plant at US Energy Dept. Hanford site in Washington state, which has begun the process to transform long-stored nuclear and hazardous wastes into inert glass for storage, will operate on ...

Two options that might speed up removal of radioactive waste from leaking underground storage tanks at Hanford will be evaluated, according to the terms of a settlement agreement reached Wednesday.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and contractor UCOR recently completed an extensive piping replacement project to extend the life of the Liquid and Gaseous ...

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 ...

The Test Bed Initiative demonstration is proposed to show whether some radioactive waste held in Hanford’s underground tanks, such as at the tank farm shown, could be grouted and disposed of out of ...

The 56 million gallons of radioactive waste created from decades of plutonium enrichment at Hanford are stored in 177 massive, underground tanks on 18 different “farms” spread out over the 580 square ...

The Department of Energy has awarded an environmental cleanup contract for the Hanford site worth up to $45 billion to a newly formed limited liability company based in Lynchburg, Va. For the second ...