Nuclear waste tanks are constructed early in Hanford’s development. (U.S. Department of Energy) A federal proposal to move radioactive nuclear waste from Washington through Oregon and onward to Utah ...

The waste could instead be solidified at Hanford or in Richland, keeping jobs in Tri-Cities area.

The Finnish regulator has given utility Fortum permission to start full operation of the liquid radioactive waste solidification facility at its Loviisa nuclear power plant. Commissioning of the waste ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the state’s U.S. senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, object to a federal proposal to transport more than 30 million gallons of liquid radioactive waste from the Hanford ...

Press release from Beyond Nuclear: Savannah River Site (SRS), South Carolina— According to a U.S. federal agency document just released on Friday May 12, the first of 100-150 truckloads of highly ...

Baker County commissioners have joined state and federal officials in opposing the potential transportation of liquid ...

The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine has given approval for the commissioning of the Solid Waste Retrieval Facility and Solid Waste Processing Plant at the Chernobyl nuclear power ...

The Department of Energy will take more time to make a potentially controversial decision on where radioactive liquid waste from the Hanford nuclear site’s underground tanks will be turned into a ...