Feds get more time to decide whether to ship liquid radioactive waste from WA

DOE was required by the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement to decide by Dec. 31 where to grout some of its low-activity ...

Feds award incentive pay of $89M to 5 contractors at WA radioactive waste site

The Department of Energy Tuesday announced incentive payments of $89 million to five contractors working at the Hanford ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Waste facility to spend half a million dollars to process stockpiled organic matter in WA

Operators of a regional Western Australian waste facility say more than half a million dollars will be spent dealing with partially processed organic waste, and what is left will be sent to landfill.
Tri-City Herald

WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly, dangerous radioactive sites

The Department of Energy and its regulators have released a revised path forward for DOE’s most costly liability in the nation — the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste stored in leak-prone ...
Tri-City Herald

Eastern WA nuclear project that could save billions. Here’s what the test showed

Some 2,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste that had been stored in underground tanks has been shipped off the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for disposal after it is ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

FOGO bin waste piling up as WA council battles to save organics from landfill

Up to 25,000 tonnes of food and garden waste collected through Western Australia's food organics and garden organics (FOGO) bin system is sitting unused in massive compost piles, despite households ...