waste

The landfill, which opened din 1958 and finally closed in 2001, contains a LOT of harmful, hazardous materials.

It seems though everyone is eating leftover turkey for a week or two after the holiday, and trying to find ways to make it different--bread, butter, turkey sandwich, plus potatoes, yams etc. But a surprising amount of the birds end up being thrown away...

The decision was puzzling, some even said dangerous.  In 2009, former President Obama significantly cut funding to for the Yucca Mountain (Nevada) Nuclear Waste Repository project, and by 2011, it was all but dead. In 2014 even papers such as the Boston Globe were saying the project should be refunded...

Officials say because it's 'human waste and medical by products' it's not hazardous like raw sewage. Tell that to the residents of this tiny Alabama town! For two months now, about 10 million pounds of what's classified as human medical waste has been sitting in rail cars in a yard in Parrish, Alabama...

This week Department of Energy officials and others at Hanford announced some new plans for how they will deal with reported leaks in waste tanks, PUREX tunnels, and the waste as well.

Before everyone runs to the home improvement store and buys up every tube of silicon or grout, it's NOT that type. But numerous experts say grout could go a long way towards stabilizing Hanford waste.

The trend has been growing in this direction for a number of years.

No word on when pumping and work on two Hanford area tanks, and other parts of the waste tank farm will continue, after 11 workers were checked after reporting smelling fumes.

Gov. Jay Inslee, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, and other Washington leaders have formally rejected a revised plan by the DOE that's supposed to speed up and streamline Hanford cleanup.

With Hanford racing to try to meet legally mandated deadlines for cleanup and vitrification of the millions of gallons of waste at the site,  could burping and the study of bubbles help solve problems?