radioactive waste

The U.S. Department of Energy is finally set to start processing radioactive waste at the Hanford site in southeast Washington. NWPB's senior correspondent Anna King has been covering Hanford for nearly two decades and talked with host Phineas Pope.

(Runtime :56)A new Northwest-made podcast explores uranium mining and how yellowcake, or concentrated uranium, winds its way through the West including at…

(Runtime 1:00)A new online tool is helping people see how contamination is moving through plumes underground at Hanford and other U.S. Department of…

(Runtime :56)A very hazardous chemical was found to be unstable at a Hanford site lab Tuesday afternoon causing dozens of people to be evacuated.The…

A creepy old building used for 30 years to research radioactive materials from 1966 to 1996 has a lot more radioactive waste under it than previously…

A massive melter intended to help treat radioactive waste at Hanford has just been flipped on for a test – for the second time.This low-activity-waste…

At Hanford, a hazardous concoction of radioactive waste and chemicals sits in World War II and Cold War-era tanks. Now one of those old tanks has a serious leak.

As President Donald Trump prepared to leave office, his Department of Energy was celebrating that a new analytical lab was “ready to operate” at the Hanford Site in southeast Washington.

The Oregon Department of Energy has issued a notice of violation to a hazardous waste facility for accepting more than 2 million pounds of radioactive materials east of the Columbia River Gorge.

The partially melted reactor core from the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history could remain in Idaho for another 20 years if regulators finalize a license extension sought by the U.S. Energy Department, officials said Monday.