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Construction started on the Waste Treatment Plant, or vit plant as it is called at Hanford, in 2002. This summer the first radioactive waste from underground storage tanks is expected to be piped ...
New Hanford site contractor. That will be 23 years after ground was broken to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, commonly called the vitrification plant.
RICHLAND, Wash. - The Department of Energy is taking strides in dealing with Hanford tank waste. The Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant is now testing key chemicals as part of ...
Greenberry Industrial workers in Corvallis helped fabricate a 65-ton testing container that will help determine how to safely mix and process nuclear waste at the Hanford Site in southeastern ...
More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken one of the final steps to begin treating waste for disposal as soon ...
Bechtel has received a potential $3.1 billion contract modification from the Energy Department to complete the initial phase of a nuclear waste treatment facility at Hanford site in Washington.
Some 2,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste that had been stored in underground tanks has been shipped off the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for disposal after it ...
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A 42-year-old Hanford workers collapsed and died Wednesday on the Hanford nuclear site. The man was working the night shift at the massive vitrification plant when he walked out to a portable ...
New Hanford site contractor. That will be 23 years after ground was broken to build the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, commonly called the vitrification plant.
Richland's Hanford plant is moving forward with testing key chemicals to safely treat tank waste. This step is crucial for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant to be ready for full ...