The last piece of piping has been installed to move radioactive waste to the Hanford site vitrification plant, as final ...

The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...

Hanford workers have completed the final pipeline link between radioactive waste tanks and a vitrification plant set to start ...

The Hanford site is one of the nation's worst nuclear waste dumps, with construction of the vitrification plant ongoing since 2002. About 56 million gallons of waste are stored in underground ...

The DOE is also in the process of testing its multi-billion dollar vitrification plant, which is intended to bind-up the radioactive waste in glass logs to safely store it. We get a tour of the ...

Vitrification is just one more temporary process for containing the deadly toxin until the government finally develops a permanent process/repository. Following vitrification, high-level ...

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 ...