Stabilization of Hanford Waste Storage Tunnel Successful

May 20, 2019

The shoring of a waste storage tunnel at the Dept. of Energy's Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington proved successful and wraps the response to a May 2017 partial collapse of an adjoining tunnel.

Comment Period Holds Up Grouting of At-Risk Hanford Waste Tunnel

Tim Newcomb

September 10, 2018

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The public still has until Sept. 27 to comment on the plan to fill the waste storage tunnel with grout to stabilize the 54-year-old tunnel.

ENR

Oct 14, 2019

The National Transportation Safety Board’s Oct. 8 release of documents related to its FIU bridge collapse investigation raises questions but provides no definitive conclusions about why the partially built structure suddenly crashed to the ground on March 15, 2018, killing six.

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