Tag Archives: vitrification

Turning Hanford’s nuclear waste into glass logs would emit toxic vapors, says document via OPB

Posted on 2022/05/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Allison Frost (OPB) The Hanford nuclear reservation in south central Washington state holds 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The facility produced plutonium for U.S. atomic bombs in WWII, and it kept producing for the country’s nuclear weapons through the late … Continue reading →

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Hanford plant one step closer to processing nuclear waste via KOIN

Posted on 2021/01/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Sen. Maria Cantwell says the plant is on track to begin treating waste in 2023. by: Amanda Arden PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A decommissioned nuclear production complex in Eastern Washington announced Wednesday it’s one step closer to processing its 56 million … Continue reading →

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Feds adopt plans for disposing of Hanford nuclear waste via King5.com

Posted on 2013/12/13 by norma field

SPOKANE, Wash. — The U.S. Department of Energy intends to retrieve nearly all the highly radioactive waste stored in underground tanks on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and convert it into a glass-like substance for permanent disposal, according to a decision … Continue reading →

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South Carolina Threatens Washington Over Cleanup via The New York Times

Posted on 2013/11/29 by norma field

AIKEN, S.C. — The Energy Department began cleaning up an environmental nightmare at the old Savannah River Site nuclear weapons plant here in 1996 and promised a bright future: Within a quarter-century, officials said, they would turn liquid radioactive bomb … Continue reading →

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Hanford whistleblower on CBS morning news via the Tri-City Herald

Posted on 2013/10/20 by norma field

RICHLAND — Hanford whistleblower Walter Tamosaitis told his story to a national audience this morning on CBS This Morning. The segment is posted here.. As the Herald reported early this month, he was laid off from his job with URS … Continue reading →

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U.S. senator criticizes incentive pay for work at Hanford vit plant via the Tri-City Herald

Posted on 2013/06/28 by norma field

A U.S. senator criticized incentive pay given to Bechtel National for its work at the Hanford vitrification plant during a hearing Thursday on Department of Energy environmental cleanup contracting policies. Cleaning up radioactive waste and contamination left from past production … Continue reading →

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Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too Dangerous via Scientific American

Posted on 2013/05/30 by norma field

The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the … Continue reading →

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Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too Dangerous via Scientific American

Posted on 2013/05/09 by norma field

The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the … Continue reading →

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Hanford: America’s Nuclear Nightmare　via Reader Supported News

Posted on 2012/01/26 by norma field

Seven decades after scientists came here during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation is struggling with an even more daunting task: cleaning up the radioactive mess. The U.S. government is building a … Continue reading →

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