In a small clear box, Etsuko Ichikawa keeps a small piece of vitrified glass that was given to her on a tour of the Hanford nuclear site. This vitrified glass encases radioactive material before it is ...

As the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant — more commonly referred to as the Vit Plant — moves toward a process of turning 56 million gallons of radioactive waste into vitrified glass in ...

Archaeological finds of glass material from Old Lödöse, a Swedish trade center in the High Middle Ages, call for a revision of the country’s glass history. New research describes how vitrified finds ...

A hilltop Swedish fort built more than 1,000 years ago might help answer questions about how to best immobilize radioactive waste at Hanford. In the Swedish Iron Age, before the time of the Vikings, ...

With more and more nuclear reactors becoming active and increases in fuel consumption, an issue is raised: there is no conclusive method to handle the spent fuel. Vitrification of nuclear waste in ...

The deadline for the U.S. Dept. of Energy to begin getting rid of long-stored radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear site by starting up a a $17-billion treatment facility has been extended until ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD froze tragic scenes of life in time. Among them, a rare phenomenon: the vitrification of a victim's brain, preserved as black glass. A sample of organic glass ...