Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hanford nuclear site workers have begun to empty a 24th aging single-shell tank, this one holding about 80,000 gallons of ...

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 ...

A single-shell tank is shown under construction at the Hanford nuclear reservation. Construction on the tanks to store radioactive waste began in 1943. Courtesy Washington River Protection Solutions ...

Hanford nuclear site workers have begun to empty a 24th aging single-shell tank, this one holding about 80,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste. The work on Tank A-106 has been ...

Workers begin emptying Hanford’s 24th tank of radioactive waste DOE focuses retrieval on six large A Tank Farm tanks, one emptied so far Hanford site in Eastern WA has 149 leak-prone single-shell ...