Twenty-three years and 70 days after workers began pouring concrete to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, the plant has turned radioactive and hazardous chemical waste into a stable glass form ...

Hands wearing thick safety gloves hold metal tongs holding a container with a molten substance pouring out onto a tray on a counter. Before nuclear waste could be transformed into glass at the Hanford ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., listens to a briefing on tank waste technology during a tour of the Hanford nuclear reservation in ...

DOE starts vitrification at Hanford, converting tank waste into durable glass. Plant produced glass that meets disposal standards for lined landfill burial. Vitrification frees double-shell tank space ...

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., listens to a briefing on tank waste technology during a tour of the Hanford nuclear reservation in April 2019. Bob Brawdy Tri-City Herald File Hanford begins tank waste ...