The Energy Department will announce in September its options for treating radioactive waste at Washington state’s Hanford site, the agency said in response to a report Tuesday that its future plans for the site are unclear.
The department’s Office of Environmental Management has been building a nuclear waste treatment plant at Hanford, including a pretreatment facility that would sort waste for future processing. The plant has cost about $11 billion since 2000. The office spent more than $750 million on the pretreatment facility between 2013 and 2018, though construction has been put on hold.
To meet a 2023 deadline to ...
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