Crews at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility recently completed the final test of key safety systems, demonstrating that the facility’s emissions treatment system can remain functional, even during an emergency loss of power.
Hanford Site contractors are busy preparing for a second Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program campaign after the site’s 222-S Laboratory evaluated waste feed for the first DFLAW campaign, ensuring the waste is suitable to be treated for vitrification.
New and returning members of the Hanford Advisory Board (HAB) recently toured several Hanford Site facilities, including a full-size mock-up of a single-shell waste-storage tank at the site’s Cold Test Facility.
The Hanford Site recently hit 2 billion gallons of contaminated groundwater treated in 2024, meeting a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management priority for the year nearly two months early.
Dozens of people from federal and state agencies and Hanford Site contractors recently gathered to celebrate completing the last of 77 environmental permits needed to start treating waste from Hanford’s large underground tanks.
Cleanup progress at the Hanford Site generates interest around the world. That’s why the Hanford Field Office and tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions recently hosted a site tour for representatives from Washington state’s agriculture industry.
During a 30-day public comment period, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Hanford Field Office hosted its annual Hanford Site 5-Year Plan public meeting.
Construction crews recently installed a crane inside the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant's High-Level Waste Facility.
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