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.

DOE was required by the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement to decide by Dec. 31 where to grout some of its low-activity ...

Liquid is being evaporated from inside a leaking underground tank in the Hanford T Tank Farm, shown here. File Tri-City Herald The Department of Energy has begun to take some action on the Hanford ...

US DOE has completed major optimisations at Savannah River Site's SWPF and DWPF, doubling tank waste processing rates to accelerate Cold War legacy cleanup.

Savannah River Mission Completion’s vision at the Savannah River Site is to remove, treat, and dispose of radioactive liquid waste and operationally close waste tanks. SRMC is the SRS Liquid Waste ...

An underground Hanford tank holding 123,000 gallons of radioactive waste appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground, according to the Department of Energy. This is the second of Hanford ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An underground nuclear waste storage tank in Washington state that dates to World War II appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground, the U.S. Department of Energy ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An underground nuclear ...

A leak in a massive nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site has expanded significantly, KING 5 learned this weekend. After leak detector alarms sounded early Sunday morning, crews at Hanford ...