The technical complexities of the tanks and their interactions with the geosphere are included where possible in the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) performance assessments and in the models they use.

Next up is a tank with a pit so radioactively hot that workers could not insert a pump without cutting into the tank. It’s ...

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 ...

The U.S. Congress asked the National Academies to evaluate the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) plans for retrieval and on-site disposal of certain radioactive wastes 2 stored in underground tanks at ...