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.

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The Department of Energy and the state of Washington have reached a conceptual agreement on revising plans for cleanup of Hanford’s radioactive waste in underground tanks after nearly three years of ...

The U.S. Department of Energy says the rotting container holds 123,000 gallons of radioactive waste leftover from U.S. military bomb making. The giant tank was constructed during the Manhattan Project ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An underground nuclear waste storage tank in Washington state that dates to World War II appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground, the U.S. Department of Energy ...

The tank contains waste left over from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons. The storage tank holds about 123,000 gallons of radioactive waste and received waste from the 1940s through the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An underground nuclear ...