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In Our View: Hanford cleanup plan encouraging, depressing
The Columbian· 13 hours agoAn agreement for the cleanup of radioactive waste at Hanford is encouraging. At the same time, it is a depressing reminder of the federal government’s dereliction in dealing ...
Hanford Site cleanup takes steps forward and backward under new agreement
Columbia Basin Herald· 21 hours agoThe Tri-Party Agreement reached Monday between the U.S. Department of Energy, Washington State Department of Ecology and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency followed years of negotiations ...
Explainer: 38 years after Chornobyl, Ukraine relies on nuclear for more than half its energy...
Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThirty-eight years after the Chornobyl disaster, Ukraine’s nuclear industry continues to produce...
Cleanup to begin in May on former Niagara Falls TNT plant, radioactive waste storage site
The Buffalo News· 6 days agoResidents of northern Niagara County are beginning to let out cautiously optimistic sighs of relief....
St. Louis' toxic sites need faster cleanup, lawmakers and residents say
Fox News· 6 days ago"We always felt like we're being gaslit by these federal agencies, like the way they would answer...
A deep dive into plutonium chemistry
Newswise· 18 hours agoArgonne researchers are investigating how to manipulate plutonium particles in complex waste mixtures at Hanford. The objective: to make the Hanford cleanup faster and cheaper ...
K-25 workers dating back to Manhattan Project reunite in Oak Ridge: 'The country owes you'
Knoxville News Sentinel· 4 days agoStreet, around 650 former K-25 workers gathered near the Oak Ridge site for their first reunion on...
Hanford’s new plan to clean up 56 million gallons of nuclear waste
Crosscut· 2 days agoHanford engineer Waheed Abdul signs the first canister to contain melted glass at Hanford in...
WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly, dangerous radioactive sites
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe high-level tank waste is among the nation’s most dangerous nuclear waste and poses a risk to the...
Students at Thoreau High School fighting to stop a potential hazardous waste site
KOAT Albuquerque· 3 days agoNearly 100 students sent letters to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham writing about stopping a potential ...