Federal and state permits issued. Hanford waste treatment days away. DOE faces Oct. 15 court decree deadline to start treating radioactive waste. Hanford vitrification plant to turn decades-old waste ...

Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetimes than children ...

KENNEWICK – The deadline to glassify the first of the Hanford nuclear site’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste will be extended under an agreement filed in federal court. Work to build the ...

A nearly two month long study is underway at the Hanford cleanup site, in southeast Washington state. It’s looking at a new stack on the Waste Treatment Plant — and how to keep too many chemical ...

Congress asked the National Academies to evaluate the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) plans for retrieval and on-site disposal of certain types of radioactive wastes stored in almost 250 underground ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Energy will take more time to make a potentially controversial decision on where radioactive liquid waste from ...

Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A Utah company wants to import massive ...

How do you feel about radioactive waste in your backyard? Well, last year, by cloak of darkness, Wayne Disposal, Inc. (WDI), a hazardous waste landfill located in Belleville, had planned to accept ...

A request for bids for possibly $4 billion worth of work at the Hanford nuclear site to grout and dispose of radioactive waste was released Tuesday. The Department of Energy is pursuing a two-pronged ...

Gov. Ferguson warns of legal action if DOE delays Hanford waste treatment plan. Hanford’s vit plant faces uncertainty despite $30B investment and 3,000 workers. Washington state regulators report no ...

Will nuclear waste travel all the way from Ontario, Canada to a site about an hour drive from Salt Lake City? An interstate panel may consider a resolution later this month on whether to allow ...

DETROIT, MI — A state judge has blocked a controversial Republic Services landfill in Wayne County from receiving new shipments of radioactive waste. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Kevin Cox signed ...