WA, NW Leaders React to ‘Historic Achievement Decades in the Making’ at Hanford Site

Radioactive waste is being turned into glass at this WA facility

It took more than 23 years for the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant to be built. The site will turn a good share of the 56 million gallons of waste into...

WA, NW leaders react to ‘historic achievement decades in the making’ at Hanford site

Washington and local leaders praised Wednesday’s historic launch of the radioactive waste treatment plant, or vitrification plant, at Hanford near Richland. Read more...

Conversion of radioactive waste into glass begins at WA’s Hanford site

Sixteen years after the original deadline, the Hanford nuclear reservation in south-central Washington state is finally converting its worst radioactive waste into a benign glass.

Hanford Site begins solidifying tank waste in glass, Department of Energy announces

RICHLAND, Wash. - The Hanford site, a decommissioned nuclear production complex that manufactured plutonium for the Manhattan Project in World War II, has started solidifying waste in glass through the new Low-Activity Waste Facility.

Polluted weapons factory begins locking up nuclear waste in glass

After years of delay and political wrangling, DOE’s Hanford site opens vitrification plant

Decades in the making, Hanford WTP makes first glass

Twenty-five years after the Department of Energy contracted Bechtel National to build a plant to vitrify radioactive sludge into a glass form, the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) began operation this week at the Hanford Site at Richland, Wash. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management said Wednesday Hanford’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Facility (DFLAW) at WTP has made glass for the first time, meeting an Oct. 15 deadline set un…