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The Basalt Waste Isolation Project (BWIP) broke ground at Hanford Site in 1976, conducting tests aimed at siting a safe and isolated repository for reactor irradiated fuel and other nuclear byproducts. Experiments in waste vitrification progressed in the Battelle Northwest laboratories. link title
