Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to ...

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

Workers pull the first concrete cask filled with cesium capsules out of the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington. Washington state Department of ...

Hanford moves 1st radioactive capsules from underwater storage. The capsules could break and release radiation in a severe earthquake. Dry storage should be safer and reduces maintenance and ...