Nuclear Waste

Washington state and two federal agencies have finalized a deal on how to clean up the radioactive tank waste in Hanford.

Three Native American tribes have devoted decades to returning their ancestral land in Washington to the days before they became the most radioactively contaminated site in the nation’s nuclear weapons complex.

A major milestone is approaching at the Hanford Site in southeast Washington state. After nearly two decades of work, contractors have just finished...

Federal officials are mustering a several-hundred page report on a double-hulled underground tank leak at Hanford.

Plans to get an early start at cleaning up some radioactive waste at Hanford may not work the way managers envisioned.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Workers recently completed clean-up work on 140 acres of the Hanford nuclear reservation where liquid waste from the making of nuclear…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-982302.mp3Scientists are experimenting with 1,800-year-old glass to better understand…

The nation needs a new agency to site a federal nuclear waste dump. That's the recommendation issued Friday by a presidential commission.The…

RICHLAND, Wash. – Hanford Nuclear Reservation workers have retrieved a key portion of radioactive waste ahead of schedule. That announcement came from the…

RICHLAND, Wash. - A federal nuclear watchdog agency is questioning some of the science behind a massive treatment plant at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation…