NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A semi-truck carrying low-level radioactive waste that caught fire on Interstate 40 Monday afternoon could have had serious health and environmental impacts depending on what ...

The vitrification plant at the Hanford site has hit a new milestone — pouring glass for the first time since construction began 21 years ago. “This marks another important step in commissioning the ...

The first container has been filled with long-lived low- and intermediate-level waste from the used fuel pools of unit 3 at Belgium's Doel nuclear power plant, which was shut down in September 2022 ...

It’s a big test baby: Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant marked the arrival of its first nearly 7-ton canister of test glass. Top managers and workers gathered in one of the massive facilities’ frigid ...

A massive melter that’s intended to help treat radioactive waste at Hanford has been flipped on for a test — for the second time. This low-activity-waste melter is sort of like an overgrown Easy-Bake ...

The Hanford site vitrification plant has filled a first container with test glass in a step toward glassifying radioactive waste to allow the permanent disposal of waste — some stored since World War ...

Workers at Dounreay in Scotland, UK, have carried out the first in a series of campaigns to seal waste containers into place within the two near-surface low-level waste disposal vaults at the site.