As shown in Chapter II (Figure II-1), the first major step in the cleanup of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) tank wastes is to retrieve wastes from the tank. The effectiveness of waste retrieval ...

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 ...

At the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington, crews have finished retrieving about 41,000 gallons of solid radioactive waste from single-shell Tank A-102. The material was moved into newer double ...

DOE has developed and deployed a number of technologies for retrieving tank wastes. Because the three sites use similar technologies, this section begins with a generic description of the technologies ...