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For eight months, a federal contractor at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation failed to check some single-shell radioactive waste tanks for the buildup of…
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We all burp sometimes. It turns out, so do underground waste tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.But it’s no laughing matter. This waste can burp up…
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How much sludge can be dumped into a double-shelled radioactive waste tank before flammable gas might build up in a big bubble?That's the question…
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The tank farms at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeast Washington have the all-clear for work to resume after a high-radiation incident briefly…
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Washington state officials say that a court-ordered construction deadline has been missed on part of the Hanford’s radioactive waste treatment plant.The…
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Washington’s state Attorney General is praising an appeals court decision on a nuclear waste repository in Nevada. The ruling requires the Nuclear…
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Federal officials are trying to figure out what to do about radioactive materials that remain at a place near the Columbia River known as the 300 Area.…
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Managers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation say crews have cleaned up 15 million tons of radioactive soil and debris from near the Columbia River. It’s…
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The people overseeing the cleanup of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster are learning some valuable lessons from the long-running cleanup at the…
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CARLSBAD, N.M. - Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a plan to send some nuclear waste from leaky storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear…