Hanford has restarted a key certification process for shipping radioactive waste to a New Mexico disposal site, after a years-long pause.

A year after a Hanford site facility returned to service following six years of repairs and upgrades, it has added hundreds of thousands of gallons of space in underground tanks, just by evaporating water in the hazardous waste they contain. 

The U.S. Department of Energy has officially reclassified some waste being stored in tanks at the Hanford site, paving the way for it to be treated by a means different than vitrification.

The U.S. Department of Energy has officially reclassified some waste being stored in tanks at the Hanford site, paving the way for it to be treated by a means different than vitrification.

What does a U.S. Air Force base on the Pacific island of Guam have to do with the Hanford site? Enough that Washington's attorney general joined a Supreme Court brief over it.

Hanford site contractors, U.S. Department of Energy officials and other partners recently completed a test of technology for the still-under-construction High-Level Waste Facility of the site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant two months ahead of schedule. 

For the first time in years, we have a realistic opportunity to move much faster, without sacrificing safety or effectiveness. The only unacceptable option now is inaction.

Hanford’s 222-S Laboratory celebrates 75 years as nuclear waste cleanup accelerates and DOE moves toward a new operating contract.

Months after denying a strategy shift, DOE is advancing a plan to grout more Hanford tank waste instead of vitrifying it – drawing state and watchdog pushback.

The state Department of Ecology is seeking public comment on a draft renewal of the Hanford sitewide permit, which would cover 52 waste sites and facilities at the Hanford nuclear site.