Crews with U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company are making progress cleaning up the “backyard” at the Central Waste Complex on the Hanford Site.
Alvaro Iniguez Ruiz, the first in his family to earn a college degree, leveraged the benefits of a college internship to secure a career at the Hanford Site.
When disaster strikes across the country, teams with the Hanford Site’s Volpentest HAMMER Federal Training Center can be found on the front lines of U.S. Department of Energy efforts.
Workers with U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company recently completed comprehensive testing of new components at the Hanford Site’s Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management recently awarded performance-based fee payments to 14 of its contractors at sites across the DOE complex.
Crews at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility recently completed the final test of key safety systems, demonstrating that the facility’s emissions treatment system can remain functional, even during an emergency loss of power.
Hanford Site contractors are busy preparing for a second Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program campaign after the site’s 222-S Laboratory evaluated waste feed for the first DFLAW campaign, ensuring the waste is suitable to be treated for vitrification.
New and returning members of the Hanford Advisory Board (HAB) recently toured several Hanford Site facilities, including a full-size mock-up of a single-shell waste-storage tank at the site’s Cold Test Facility.
The Hanford Site recently hit 2 billion gallons of contaminated groundwater treated in 2024, meeting a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management priority for the year nearly two months early.
Dozens of people from federal and state agencies and Hanford Site contractors recently gathered to celebrate completing the last of 77 environmental permits needed to start treating waste from Hanford’s large underground tanks.