The second Hanford PUREX plant tunnel storing highly radioactive waste has been stabilized to prevent a collapse. Work to fill the tunnel with concrete-like grout began in early October and was ...
Washington State's Department of Ecology has launched a 45-day public comment period on whether to allow the US Department of Energy to fill a radioactive waste-containing tunnel at the Hanford site ...
Hanford workers pump grout into a port on Tunnel 2. The tunnel is being sealed up so to lessen the risk of collapse that could endanger workers and the public. CREDIT ...
Cement trucks deliver grout to a pumper truck to pour into the top of a partially collapsed waste storage tunnel at the Hanford nuclear reservation last fall. The work was done under emergency ...
Work to stabilise a 1688-foot (515-metre) long tunnel containing contaminated equipment from historic plutonium production activities at the US Department of Energy's Hanford site in Washington State ...