January 22, 2026

Washington state praises moving Hanford capsules to dry cask storage

By Wayne Barber

Workers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site have successfully moved the first batch of cesium and strontium capsules from wet to dry storage, the Washington state Department of Ecology said Thursday.
Within the next few years, all 1,936 of the highly-radioactive…

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