Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will move forward with solidifying tank waste at the Hanford Facility. According to a ...

Will the next presidential administration tinker with the Hanford nuclear reservation’s complicated cleanup of radioactive wastes? Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative blueprint for ...

DEA says federal agents seized nearly 370 pounds of drugs in historic Tri-Cities bust The DEA says it has made the largest drug seizure in the history of the Eastern District of Washington after ...

DOE leases 190,000 sq ft FMEF to General Matter to revive U.S. nuclear fuel supply. General Matter evaluates FMEF and seeks to support HALEU production for advanced reactors. Richland land option and ...

Hanford plant begins final testing phase using chemical simulants for waste. Low Activity Waste Facility aims to start treating radioactive waste by July. DOE contractor H2C set to assume operations ...

The deadline to glassify the first of the Hanford nuclear site’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste will be extended under an agreement filed in federal court. Work began to build the massive ...

DOE may shift strategy at Hanford as waste plant nears initial operation. Plant construction began in 2002; deadline for waste treatment is Oct. 15. Facility employs 3,000 workers and receives $3 ...

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 ...