RICHLAND, Wash.-In a historic event decades in the making, the Hanford Site recently began immobilizing low-activity, ...

The heat up of a second melter at the Hanford site vitrification plant began early Tuesday morning and by Wednesday morning it had reached 300 degrees. “Heating up our second melter is a significant ...

Drawing from an innovative technology, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and cleanup contractor UCOR have achieved a breakthrough set to eliminate a complex legacy waste stored ...

A project to demonstrate the use of innovative radioactive waste vitrification technology, developed in France, at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has been under way for the ...

With more and more nuclear reactors becoming active and increases in fuel consumption, an issue is raised: there is no conclusive method to handle the spent fuel. Vitrification of nuclear waste in ...