State environment agency also ordered revise of the estimated 25,000-acre DOE site's disposal permit for WIPP—the N.M.underground repository for federal transuranic waste—to increase the volume of ...

Plans set to allow the Hanford "glassification" project in Washington state to treat and store nuclear waste appear ready to move forward, after previous reports that the federal Department of Energy ...

The Army Corps of Engineers is targeting this fall to start cleanup of the Parks Township nuclear waste dump, which marks a slight delay caused by harsh winter weather from previously announced dates.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rumors were flying Monday that the future of radioactive waste treatment at Hanford’s massive vitrification plant might undergo a ...

Superfund toxic waste sites across the country aren't getting cleaned up because the money isn't available to make it happen. Those are the findings from a report released Wednesday from the U.S. PIRG ...

Research and development is essential in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) efforts to clean up significant contamination from decades of nuclear weapons production, but over time DOE has reduced ...

HANFORD, Wash. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released the 2025 Hanford Lifecycle Scope, Schedule, and Cost Report, detailing the extensive cleanup efforts at the Hanford Site. The report, ...

Munitions debris and unexploded ordnance were observed buried throughout the site in Corning, which is now slated for cleanup ...