Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last piece of piping has been installed to move radioactive waste to the Hanford site vitrification plant, as final ...

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 ...

Two options that might speed up removal of radioactive waste from leaking underground storage tanks at Hanford will be evaluated, according to the terms of a settlement agreement reached Wednesday.

The Department of Energy and Washington state have reached an agreement on steps to address radioactive waste suspected of leaking into the ground from a third storage tank at the Hanford nuclear site ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A deal to address two nuclear waste storage tanks that are leaking radioactive materials into the soil in Washington state was reached Thursday between the state and the U.S.

Another of Hanford site’s tanks emptied of most radioactive waste. Much of Hanford’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste is stored in leak-prone tanks. Retrieval marks progress on emptying waste ...