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Hanford Crew Completes Key First Test of 'Bubblers'
The Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant becomes operational and is transforming radiological and chemical tank waste into immobilized glass, a team will periodically replace various parts of the treatment system during routine maintenance.
Workers with tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions connect hoses to an ion exchange column inside the Tank-Side Cesium Removal System’s process enclosure before processing another batch of tank waste at the Hanford Site.
EM Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently resumed processing high-level tank waste through the Tank-Side Cesium Removal System at the Hanford Site following a maintenance outage.
Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos Waste Retrieval Operations Supervisor Juan Garcia guides a mock-up pipe, filled with cement that does not contain radioactive waste, while it is loaded onto a pipe-roller conveyor belt before being cut into sections.
The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) recently installed a hydraulic shear system, a major step toward remediating transuranic (TRU) waste contained in large, corrugated metal pipes buried underground at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) since 1986.