More than two decades after construction of the Hanford nuclear site’s massive vitrification plant began, the plant has taken ...

Construction has been completed on all the facilities at the Hanford site’s vitrification ... Bechtel National project director for the vit plant project. The Low Activity Waste Facility will ...

A new national review panel has agreed with the Department of Energy that resolutions for 28 technical issues are adequate for design and construction work to be completed at Hanford's ...

of Ecology has granted permits needed for Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, known as the Vit Plant ... of Facilities systems have completed startup testing and are well ...

The Department of Energy has awarded a Hanford site contract with an estimated ... startup and commissioning of the vit plant, formally named the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.

WTP Construction Accomplishments 2013 from Hanford Vit Plant on Vimeo ... manager of construction at the Waste Treatment Plant. “In addition, we completed a substantial amount of work at ...

Bechtel announced on Monday that it had successfully completed the first set of test glass pours into a storage container designed to hold vitrified radioactive and chemical waste.

The Hanford vitrification ... by technical issues at the plant. The Analytical Laboratory is close to completion and the Low Activity Waste Facility could be completed next year.

But workers expect to have completed ... but without the vit plant, you really can’t get started on the biggest of all mitigation measures that have to happen at Hanford.” ...

It will be the world’s largest radioactive waste melter once commissioning is completed ... Hanford tanks. It faces a federal court deadline to treat high-level radioactive waste at the vit ...