Emptying of another leak-prone underground tank holding radioactive and other hazardous waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation has begun for the first time since August 2021. The Hanford site has ...

Hanford workers have begun retrieving radioactive waste from another of the nuclear reservation’s 149 leak-prone underground waste tanks. To date the Department of Energy has completed waste retrieval ...

Hanford workers have emptied waste to legal requirements from two more of the nuclear reservation’s leak-prone underground tanks, including the first tank emptied with a new retrieval system. The ...

Hanford site workers have reached a key environmental cleanup milestone, emptying radioactive waste from a second tank farm. “This is an important moment in our Hanford cleanup effort,” said Brian ...

RICHLAND — Hanford workers are expected to begin pumping radioactive waste from a leak-prone underground tank at Hanford for the first time in nearly two years. Work is scheduled to begin this weekend ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - After 19 years of work to safeguard nuclear waste dating from the Cold War, workers at a sprawling Washington state site have managed to remove virtually all of the radioactive ...