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WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly, dangerous radioactive sites
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe Department of Energy and its regulators have released a revised path forward for DOE’s most...
WA, feds to release Hanford radioactive waste plan after 4 years of closed-door talks
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 2 months agoNearly four years after Washington and federal officials began renegotiating plans and treatment...
2 Hanford tanks are leaking nuclear waste into the ground. Plan to deal with them settled
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo options that might speed up removal of radioactive waste from leaking underground storage tanks...
Feds get more time to start up massive Hanford plant. Construction began 20 years ago
Tri-City Herald McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoA federal judge has agreed to give the Department of Energy more time to start treating waste at the...
300-ton Eastern WA melter reaches peak temperature to turn radioactive waste into glass
Tri-City Herald McClatchy via AOL· 2 months agoThe Hanford site vitrification plant being built to treat radioactive waste now has two massive...
Texas nuke waste storage license blocked by court. Could this impact New Mexico facility?
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA federal appeals court vacated a license issued to a private company to store nuclear waste in...
By barge, rail or truck? Feds propose travel routes for Indian Point's nuclear fuel
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAt Indian Point nuclear power plant, 125 hardened casks of spent radioactive fuel sit idle, waiting...
3 years later Hanford nuclear waste cleanup negotiators reveal this breakthrough
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Department of Energy and the state of Washington have reached a conceptual agreement on revising...
Missouri elementary school to close after report finds radioactive contamination
ABC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA Missouri elementary school located near a contaminated creek in St. Louis County has closed after...
10-year, $45 billion contract awarded for Hanford nuclear waste cleanup in Eastern WA
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe Department of Energy has awarded an environmental cleanup contract for the Hanford site worth up...