Two options that might speed up removal of radioactive waste from leaking underground storage tanks at Hanford will be evaluated, according to the terms of a settlement agreement reached Wednesday.

Hanford nuclear site workers have begun to empty a 24th aging single-shell tank, this one holding about 80,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste. The work on Tank A-106 has been ...

The Department of Energy has awarded an environmental cleanup contract for the Hanford site worth up to $45 billion to a newly formed limited liability company based in Lynchburg, Va. For the second ...

A leak in a massive nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site has expanded significantly, KING 5 learned this weekend. After leak detector alarms sounded early Sunday morning, crews at Hanford ...

The Hanford Waste Treatment Plant has successfully solidified more than 100,000 gallons of Hanford tank waste into glass, marking a major commissioning mileston ...

After just 14 months on the job, the President of Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), the federal government's contractor in charge of managing the underground nuclear waste storage tanks at ...

The SX Tank Farm has 15 single-shell tanks, each with a 1-million-gallon capacity, in the 200 West area of central Hanford. H2C is working to maintain tanks and to empty waste from single-shell tanks ...