Apr. 30—THOREAU — Sitting around a table in a library at Thoreau High School, 10 Navajo students all nodded when asked if they are scared for themselves. But it's not only about them, they said. The ...

DETROIT, MI — A state judge has blocked a controversial Republic Services landfill in Wayne County from receiving new shipments of radioactive waste. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Kevin Cox signed ...

The Department of Energy on Wednesday signed the paperwork needed to allow radioactive waste to be pumped into the Hanford nuclear site’s vitrification plant 23 years after construction began, said ...

A request for bids for possibly $4 billion worth of work at the Hanford nuclear site to grout and dispose of radioactive waste was released Tuesday. The Department of Energy is pursuing a two-pronged ...

The Department of Energy will take more time to make a potentially controversial decision on where radioactive liquid waste from the Hanford nuclear site's underground tanks will be turned into a ...

Federal and state permits issued. Hanford waste treatment days away. DOE faces Oct. 15 court decree deadline to start treating radioactive waste. Hanford vitrification plant to turn decades-old waste ...

DOE starts vitrification at Hanford, converting tank waste into durable glass. Plant produced glass that meets disposal standards for lined landfill burial. Vitrification frees double-shell tank space ...

RISING TIDE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE. RADIOACTIVE GAS WILL BE VENTED FROM STORAGE CONTAINERS AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB SATURDAY, AND SOME IN THE AREA ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT. JASON MCNABB IS LIVE IN LOS ...

A truck for Noble Environmental, the parent company of Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa., drives down a road on a rainy day. When John Quigley became the secretary of the ...