Hanford workers spent months preparing for the start of waste retrieval at Hanford’s double shell Tank AY-102. Washington River Protection Solutions An inspection of Hanford’s oldest double shell tank ...

Radioactive particles have been measured at elevated levels for the first time in the outer safety space of the Hanford double-shell tank known as AY-101. The contractor that manages the tank told ...

The oldest double-shell tank at Hanford will be permanently closed, the Department of Energy has told the Washington Department of Ecology. After emptying as much radioactive waste as possible from ...

The leak in a massive underground double-shell nuclear waste tank at the Hanford Site has grown significantly since the leak was first announced to the public last fall, according to sources who have ...

Two options that might speed up removal of radioactive waste from leaking underground storage tanks at Hanford will be evaluated, according to the terms of a settlement agreement reached Wednesday.

An unusual radiation reading in Hanford’s second-oldest double-shell tank has officials investigating to see if it may have an interior leak. However, an inspection with a video camera lowered into ...

Hanford could be challenged to immediately empty another of its underground, double-shell tanks holding high level radioactive waste if more of those tanks fail. A Department of Energy Office of ...

An inspection of Hanford’s oldest double shell tank found not just one leak from the inner shell — it found seven. Tank AY-102 had a slow leak of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste from its ...

Radioactive particles have been measured at elevated levels for the first time in the outer safety space of the Hanford double-shell tank known as AY-101. Sources tell KING 5 that alarms went off last ...