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 underground Hanford tank holding 123,000 gallons of radioactive waste appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground, according to the Department of Energy. This is the second of Hanford ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A third aging underground tank at the Hanford nuclear site is suspected of leaking highly radioactive and hazardous chemical waste ...

According to a new report by the Washington State Department of Ecology, a massive underground radioactive chemical storage tank in the state is leaking hundreds of thousands of gallons of nuclear ...

Warning sign at the entry to the Hanford Site in Washington state. Image by en:User:TobinFricke in January 2005. (Creative Commons 1.2) Warning sign at the entry to the Hanford Site in Washington ...

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 ...

Emptying of another leak-prone underground tank holding radioactive and other hazardous waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation has begun for the first time since August 2021. The Hanford site has ...

An underground radioactive chemical storage tank in southeast Washington state is leaking gallons of nuclear waste, according to the Washington State Department of Ecology, which is overseeing the ...

Leaking underground storage tanks remain a leading cause of groundwater pollution even after more than a half-million sites have been cleaned up. Roughly 81 million people live within a quarter-mile ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...