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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 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
Workers at the US Hanford Site in southeast Washington state have finished filling a second waste storage tunnel with engineered grout, reducing the risk of a collapse and possible release of radioactive materials, the Department of Energy (DOE) said on 29 April.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 07 May 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgrouting-completed-at-collapsed-tunnel-on-us-hanford-site-7192737
US Centrus Energy Corp (formerly known as USEC) announced on 2 October that it had been awarded a $15 million work authorisation by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) to prepare the K-1600 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for demolition. Centrus has leased K-1600 - the former K-25 site - from the DOE since 2002 to test and demonstrate its uranium enrichment technology. The company has also been conducting centrifuge manufacturing, engineering and design at its own nearby Technology and Manufacturing Centre (TMC) in south Oak Ridge, at the former Boeing plant.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 05 October 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-awards-centrus-15m-for-decommissioning-work-6786749
A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU’s) Robotics Institute in the USA will be used to investigate pipes at the US Department of Energy's (DOE’s) former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify uranium deposits on pipe walls.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 27 March 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrobots-used-to-investigate-pipes-at-us-doe-clean-up-sites-6096618
A tunnel partly collapsed on 9 May at a US plutonium-handling facility at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state, Reuters and other press organisations reported.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshanford-tunnel-collapses-5809770
Radioactive contamination is spreading inside a deteriorating processing plant at the US’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation, which was last used in the 1950s and 1960s to process plutonium for the weapons programme, Associated press reported on 3 January. The Tri-City Herald newspaper reported that the facility, known as REDOX, is located deep within the heavily guarded Hanford site, and the contamination poses no threat to the general public.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 05 January 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscontamination-reported-to-be-spreading-at-us-hanford-site-5709996