Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial photo of the low-activity waste facility at the Hanford site's waste treatment plant. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Department ...

Plans set to allow the Hanford "glassification" project in Washington state to treat and store nuclear waste appear ready to move forward, after previous reports that the federal Department of Energy ...

The first 7.5-ton container of radioactive waste turned into a stable glass form was carefully set on the bottom of a vast ...

Carolyn Pearce is busy digging up, cutting up and even x-raying ancient glass across the globe for study. Why? She’s trying to figure out the properties of the strongest glass on earth today, ones ...

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 ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Fionna Samuels about the use of ...

Sixteen years after the original deadline, the Hanford nuclear reservation in south-central Washington state is finally converting its worst radioactive waste into a benign glass. Glassification began ...