As crews from CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. tear down the four main buildings that make up the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) at the Dept. of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeastern ...

The main processing facility of Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant started to fall this week, putting the end in sight for cleanup of the plant after two decades of work. The main part of the plant ...

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control recently approved an air quality construction permit for the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility project at the Savannah ...

The roof of the defunct REDOX processing plant at Hanford was replaced in 2017 to protect the highly contaminated plant until it can be demolished. Courtesy Department of Energy Workers in the 200 ...

But nuclear experts said Thursday the real test is if the Koreans start up a processing facility next door, where plutonium would be extracted from the used fuel, or from thousands of used fuel rods ...

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea said Wednesday it had taken steps that could allow it to harvest more plutonium for atomic bombs and that it would bolster its arsenal, the communist country’s latest ...

Every day brings fresh progress to the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site. Following release of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, which stated that the U.S.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry testifies to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the "Fiscal Year 2019 Department of Energy Budget" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 12 ...

When an aging colorimeter process monitoring system is replaced with a cutting edge spectroscopy system featuring Avantes spectrometers, it provides promising benefits for the HB Line Chemical ...

Work continues at the Savannah River Site to transform the Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility into a plutonium pit production facility. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental ...