Plutonium is currently stored at Sellafield in a powder form but needs to be processed before it is disposed of A multibillion-pound plant to process plutonium is expected to bring thousands of ...

More than a dozen Department of Energy workers were fired this month at a central Washington nuclear cleanup site, with at ...

A multibillion-pound plant to process plutonium is expected to bring thousands of skilled jobs in the coming decades, the government has said. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA ...

The Hanford site was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce two-thirds of the nation’s plutonium for nuclear weapons, leading to major contamination. Federal employees at the ...

Today, an estimated 56 million gallons of radioactive waste remains at Hanford, much of it in storage tanks that are known to be leaking. Considering that the site sits near the Columbia River, about ...

The Hanford site was established as part of the Manhattan Project, which resulted in development of the first atomic bomb during World War II. For decades after, plutonium for the U.S. nuclear ...

The Finishing Company was located on Hwy. 29/70 and for years was an important employer in Rowan County. But in 2011, a fire destroyed most of what was left of the plant. Since then, plans to ...

140 tonnes of plutonium is currently being stored at Sellafield, the nuclear site in Cumbria The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a ...

Traffic crowds Highway 240 nearly every morning outside the Hanford Site’s sprawling, sage-studded industrial complex. This site churned out plutonium ... aiming to finish the entire Hanford ...