In this edition of Behind the Scenes at the Nuclear Waste Program, we talk with Heather Hansen, our Resource Center Business ...

After World War II, nuclear power was heralded as the future of energy. Then the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in ...

The Hanford nuclear site's massive vitrification plant could begin treating waste for disposal as soon as this summer.

An NTI nuclear expert writes that it was disappointing to see used nuclear fuel reprocessing play prominently in executive ...

A U.S.-based facility that served as a naval nuclear propulsion prototype reactor plant has been fully deactivated. The ...

More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken ...

The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...

Money was made available to prevent subcontractor employee layoffs at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington the day ...

A hearing over the disposal of radioactive waste in Van Buren Township brought out concerned community members and elected ...

The Department of Energy has picked Brian Harkins the acting manager of the Hanford site in Eastern Washington just weeks after naming him acting deputy manager.