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Workers at the US Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment & Immobilisation Plant (WTP) have launched the second of two 300-tonne melters that has now reached the operating temperature of 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit as part of US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste programme. EM said this represents significant progress toward starting plant operations to immobilise in glass millions of gallons of radioactive and chemical waste from large underground tanks.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 13 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshanford-site-launches-second-melter-11677618
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).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- 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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- 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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- 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.
- 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
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.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 19 October 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmelter-starts-up-at-us-hanford-site-10092975
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).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- 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).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstank-waste-treatment-begins-at-us-hanford-site-9459962
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