September 2014

Review of the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Construction Quality

The U.S. Department of Energy independent Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA) was established in May 2014 and assumed responsibility for managing the Department's Independent Oversight Program for the Department's former Office of Health, Safety and Security. The office now called the EA Office of Environment, Safety and Health Assessments conducted an assessment of selected aspects of construction quality at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) from May 5-8, 2014. The assessment continued a series of ongoing quarterly independent assessments of construction since 2011 at the WTP construction site.