As EM continues its historic cleanup across the DOE complex, its liquid waste work is taking a higher profile.
The Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team recently completed loading approximately 55,000 pounds of small carbon pellets into the emissions treatment system of the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility.
EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White recently visited the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, where he surveyed progress on major cleanup projects,
Tank by tank, batch by batch, the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) & tank operations contractor Washington River Protection (WRPS) are reducing risk to the environment by retrieving waste from the Hanford Site’s single-shell waste-storage tanks.
Two EM prime contractors recently teamed up to provide hands-on training at the Hanford Site to increase safety and prevent contamination in the event of an emergency response.
The first batch of approximately 200,000 gallons of tank waste has been treated by the Hanford Site’s Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) System and is staged in a double-shell tank for immobilization in glass.
View this video about how laboratory technicians at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant have been building proficiency in using a system that will safely transfer samples of radioactive waste.
An innovative team of truck drivers, engineers, mechanics and others has revamped trucks to make them more functional while transporting samples to support the tank waste mission at the Hanford Site.
EM’s Office of River Protection awarded Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) contractor Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) approximately $5.8 million, about 74% of the available fee for work performed during the 2021 calendar year.
Federal and contractor leadership serving on a panel at the 2022 Waste Management Symposia last week discussed the progress of liquid waste treatment facilities at three EM sites as they work to meet cleanup commitments.