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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:
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-national-labs-awarded-funding-to-speed-up-hanford-tank-waste-clean-up-11594327
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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- 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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 22 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-contract-awarded-for-hanford-site-work-10779638
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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 25 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-cocoon-for-US-legacy-reactor
US-based Deep Isolation, a specialist in used fuel and high-level waste (HLW) storage and disposal solutions, announced that it had acquired Freestone Environmental Services, a multi-discipline environmental and water resources consulting firm based in Richland, Washington.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 09 December 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdeep-isolation-acquires-freestone-environmental-services-9309171
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced that tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) had finished construction of the pipeline that will carry treated waste from a Hanford tank to the Waste Treatment and Immobilisation Plant (WTP) for vitrification, or immobilisation in glass.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 24 August 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-prepares-for-radwaste-vitrification-at-hanford-9022447
US federal prosecutors on 22 September announced a settlement involving the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a Manhattan Project-era facility near Richland, Washington, and two companies that previously worked at the site.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 29 September 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbechtel-and-aecom-fined-for-fraudulent-work-at-us-hanford-site-8153403
The contract, valued at $10bn over 10 years, is for end state closure of facilities, waste burial sites, and groundwater remediation in the river corridor of the Hanford Reservation along the Columbia River.
The work will also include decommissioning and dismantlement of several legacy facilities on the Central Plateau of the Hanford Reservation. CPC Co will manage waste disposition activities for the on-site disposal facility as well as offsite disposal operations.
CPC Co is an Amentum-led joint venture with Atkins Nuclear Secured, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, and Fluor.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 19 September 2020
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/doe-gives-go-ahead-for-start-of-usd10bn-contract-9-5-2020
The US Department of Energy (DOE) needs to do more to prevent the failure of radioactively contaminated facilities at the nuclear weapons production site at Hanford in Washington state, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released on 20 February.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 25 February 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-gao-criticises-doe-handling-of-hanford-site-7787178
The control room for the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Facility at the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Hanford site in Washington State has been commissioned. The facility is one of four major facilities that together will form the Waste Treatment and Immobilisation Plant, which will process and stabilize radioactive and chemical waste stored at the Hanford Site.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 27 August 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hanford-waste-treatment-plant-control-room-opens