DOE was required by the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement to decide by Dec. 31 where to grout some of its low-activity ...

Wash., used her powerful position in Congress to help Tri-Cities science, environmental and historical projects.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- While one of the newer double-walled nuclear waste storage tanks at a Washington state complex has leaked, six others have "significant construction flaws" that could lead to ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Federal and state officials said six underground tanks holding a brew of radioactive and toxic waste are leaking at the country's most contaminated nuclear site in south-central ...

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.

UPDATE: October 15, 2025 at 4:44 p.m. Washington Representative Dan Newhouse responded to the development of the Low-Activity Waste Facility project with the following statement: "Today is a historic ...

Workers at the Hanford Site in Washington state are using cold spray metal coating on aging double-shell waste tanks to ...

Two related discoveries detailing nanocrystalline mineral formation and dynamics have broad implications for managing nuclear ...

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 ...

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...