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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has awarded $27.3m for research & development to accelerate the Hanford Site’s tank waste clean-up mission. The funds are for 13 projects led by six national laboratories. Project duration is from two to three years. First-year funding ranges from $1.3m million to $3m per project. The laboratories and their projects are:

Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-national-labs-awarded-funding-to-speed-up-hanford-tank-waste-clean-up-11594327

The Waste Treatment & Immobilisation Plant (WTP) at the US Hanford Site has produced the initial container of test glass as workers commission the first of two large melters at the plant’s Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility, according to the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM).

Date: Saturday, 09 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-test-glass-poured-at-hanford-waste-treatment-plant-11356695

The Washington State Department of Ecology (WSDE) says a settlement agreement has finally been reached with the US Department of Energy (DOE) to ensure access to critical federal data about the Hanford Site. “This brings to conclusion the $1.065m penalty Ecology issued to Energy in 2020 for restricting the state’s legally mandated direct access to important facility data, impairing Ecology’s ability to maintain regulatory oversight,” WSDE noted.

Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdoe-settles-dispute-over-hanford-site-with-washington-ecology-department-11160812

Clean-up activities continue at the US Hanford Site with demolition of the K West Reactor Annex that was used to transfer radioactive sludge away from the Columbia River. The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) said the demolition of is another key step toward clearing the former plutonium production reactor.

Date: Saturday, 19 August 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshanford-demolition-of-reactor-annex-clears-the-way-for-clean-up-11083308

A new $30m investment by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Office (EM) will fund research and technology development led by DOE’s national laboratories aimed at better addressing tank waste at the Hanford Site.

Date: Saturday, 17 June 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-funding-for-us-hanford-tank-waste-research-development-10946297

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has awarded the Hanford Integrated Tank Disposition Contract (ITDC) to Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure, LLC (H2C) of Lynchburg, Virginia, for work at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State.

Date: Saturday, 22 April 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-contract-awarded-for-hanford-site-work-10779638

The US Hanford site vitrification plant has started heating the first of two 300-tonne melters at the $17 billion plant’s Low Activity Waste Facility with the goal of starting to treat radioactive waste by the end of 2023, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). Construction of the first melter started 20 years ago and it must now remain hot continuously as it initially makes practice glass and then begins vitrifying low-level radioactive waste.

Date: Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmelter-starts-up-at-us-hanford-site-10092975

Work has begun on a protective enclosure for a former reactor on the US Department of Energy's Hanford site in Washington State. The K East Reactor is the seventh at the site to be placed in interim safe storage.

Date: Saturday, 25 June 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-cocoon-for-US-legacy-reactor

The US Hanford Site reported on 10 May that crews recently completed the first transfer of test water from the Waste Treatment and Immobilisation Plant's (WTP) Effluent Management Facility (EMF) to the nearby Liquid Effluent Retention Facility (LERF).

Date: Friday, 13 May 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshanford-achieves-first-transfer-between-tank-waste-treatment-facilities-9694319

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that workers have begun the first large-scale treatment of radioactive and chemical waste from large underground tanks at the Hanford Site. This marks completion of the first of an ambitious slate of 2022 priorities set by the DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM).

Date: Friday, 04 February 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstank-waste-treatment-begins-at-us-hanford-site-9459962