Two options that might speed up removal of radioactive waste from leaking underground storage tanks at Hanford will be evaluated, according to the terms of a settlement agreement reached Wednesday.

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The Department of Energy and Washington state have reached an agreement on steps to address radioactive waste suspected of leaking into the ground from a third storage tank at the Hanford nuclear site ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — While one of the newer double-walled nuclear waste storage tanks at a Washington state complex has leaked, six others have “significant construction flaws” that could lead to ...

As shown in Chapter II (Figure II-1), the first major step in the cleanup of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) tank wastes is to retrieve wastes from the tank. The effectiveness of waste retrieval ...