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Hanford’s new plan to clean up 56 million gallons of nuclear waste
The Wenatchee World· 3 hours agoState and federal officials on Monday released another new plan to clean up Hanford, the Western...
In Our View: Hanford cleanup plan encouraging, depressing
The Columbian· 15 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· 23 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....
Watchdog group says LANL data shows widespread plutonium migration
Santa Fe New Mexican· 7 days ago“That’s been long known,” Nuclear Watch New Mexico Director Jay Coghlan said in a virtual briefing Thursday morning, when the organization unveiled a map of plutonium migration ...
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...
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...
A deep dive into plutonium chemistry
Newswise· 20 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 ...
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...