Toxic, aging radioactive tank ‘emptied’ at Washington nuclear site

Toxic radioactive tank ‘emptied’ at WA nuclear site. Pace picks up

Tank A-106 would be the third single-shell tank emptied in less than a year.

Toxic, aging radioactive tank ‘emptied’ at Washington nuclear site

KENNEWICK — Work is finished to empty high-level radioactive and hazardous chemical waste from the 24th leak-prone underground tank at the Hanford nuclear site, the Department of Energy announced Tuesday.

1976 Hanford mayor's predictions about life in 2026

In 1976, then-Hanford Mayor Bob Hill gave a public speech in the days before the time capsule burial, where he made several predictions of what was to come in 2026:

Hanford empties 24th single-shell tank

The Department of Energy said this week its nuclear cleanup branch has now removed radioactive waste from 24 of its single-shell tanks at the Hanford Site in Richland, Wash. It has only taken about seven months for DOE’s BWXT-led contractor, Hanford Tank Waste Operations and Closure (H2C), to move 79,000 gallons of waste from Single-Shell Tank A-106 to a double-shell tank, the department said in a press release. H2C dissolved the surface salt-ba…