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The U.S. Department of Energy announced that they have treated the first batch of radioactive tank waste at Hanford in southeast Washington. Workers bound the waste up into glass.

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.

The world’s largest melter, designed to solidify nuclear waste, is now up and running at the Hanford site. Correspondent Lauren Paterson has more.(Runtime…