Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first containers of glassified Hanford tank waste have been delivered to their final destination, the Integrated Disposal ...

The first containers of glassified Hanford tank waste have been delivered to their final destination, the Integrated Disposal Facility, a lined landfill at the center of the Hanford nuclear site.

For decades, one of the main challenges facing nuclear energy has been how to safely and effectively store the radioactive ...

After decades of planning, arguing and engineering, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeast Washington this ...

The fight between New Mexico and the U.S. Department of Energy over nuclear waste rose a DEFCON level Thursday, with the ...

The federal government will begin the long-awaited cleanup of a nuclear waste dump outside Apollo in Armstrong County.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have finished depressurizing four tritium waste containers that have been in storage since ...

First glassified Hanford tank waste canisters moved to lined landfill. Integrated Disposal Facility be permanent disposal site for vitrified waste. Landfill can only accept low level radioactive waste ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory are working to safely depressurize four containers holding nuclear waste that have been in ...

Yellow barrels of radioactive waste lined up on shelves - Onurdongel/Getty Images Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear ...

Nuclear energy is one of the most polarizing topics when it comes to ways of generating electricity. On one hand, there are those who believe nuclear is a much better alternative to fossil fuels and ...

HANFORD, Wash. – The Washington Department of Ecology announced the transportation of the first containers of low activity nuclear waste to the Integrated Disposal Facility at the Hanford site. The ...