The Hanford site vitrification plant being built to treat radioactive waste now has two massive melters heated to full temperature of 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit. The next step will be to begin running ...

The heat up of a second melter at the Hanford site vitrification plant began early Tuesday morning and by Wednesday morning it had reached 300 degrees. “Heating up our second melter is a significant ...

More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as soon as ...

The Department of Energy is unlikely to meet a deadline set by a federal court for the next step to prepare the Hanford site’s vitrification plant to treat radioactive waste for disposal. On Thursday ...