The technical complexities of the tanks and their interactions with the geosphere are included where possible in the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) performance assessments and in the models they use.

YAKIMA -- Workers at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site have resumed work to retrieve radioactive and hazardous waste from underground tanks, nearly a year after a spill and technological ...

Another of Hanford site’s tanks emptied of most radioactive waste. Much of Hanford’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste is stored in leak-prone tanks. Retrieval marks progress on emptying waste ...

The U.S. Congress asked the National Academies to evaluate the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) plans for retrieval and on-site disposal of certain radioactive wastes 2 stored in underground tanks at ...