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

Gov. Kotek, senators Wyden and Merkley say waste should be transformed into safer solid material before being moved from Hanford, Washington Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the state’s U.S. senators, Ron ...

Seventh in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. When John Quigley became the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in 2015, he knew that he would be busy ...

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.

DOE was required by the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement to decide by Dec. 31 where to grout some of its low-activity radioactive waste. Hanford has 56 million gallons of waste stored in ...

DOE awarded $89M in fiscal 2025 incentive fees to five Hanford site contractors. Contractors earned 90% to 96% of total fees; some parts hit 100%. H2C, HMIS, CPCCo, Navarro-ATL and outgoing tanks ...

President Donald Trump and his administration have continuously assured Nevadans that their interest in nuclear energy doesn’t mean they’ll revive the federal government’s plan to store waste at Yucca ...

RICHLAND – More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as ...