A Department of Energy proposal that could change what is done with some high level radioactive waste at Hanford has Oregon urging its residents to take a stand. “Waste that is no longer considered ...

DOE was required by the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement to decide by Dec. 31 where to grout some of its low-activity ...

Roger Jarrell, a lawyer who served during Trump’s first term, was fired Monday. The Energy Department on Monday fired a top official overseeing the cleanup of decades’ worth of pollution left over ...

The U.S. government is reconsidering its 1970s vintage policy of simply burying spent nuclear fuel. The Department of Energy (DOE) is once again examining fuel reprocessing options that could reduce ...

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

The Hanford nuclear reservation in Southeastern Washington was the epicenter of plutonium enrichment during WW II and through the Cold War. For more than 20 years, an effort to safely dispose and ...

In historic step, radioactive waste moved to massive Hanford treatment plant. DOE aims to produce certified glass canisters by Oct 15, 2025, under court order. Plant will glassify low-activity waste ...

On November 14, 2024, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Department of Nuclear Energy, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy, and the Energy Communities Alliance (ECA ...

Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.