Hanford Site crews recently completed the first transfer of test water from the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant's (WTP) Effluent Management Facility (EMF) to the nearby Liquid Effluent Retention Facility (LERF).
EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) recently installed piping and tubing to provide critical water and network data infrastructure to the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
Robot technology is providing new ways to monitor the integrity of underground double-shell waste-storage tanks at the Hanford Site.
In the blink of an eye, as this time-lapse video shows, crews with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company last month completed pouring 11 truckloads.
he National Weather Service (NWS) determined that the highest temperature in the history of Washington state was recorded in June at the Hanford Meteorological Station.
The Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team recently completed loading approximately 55,000 pounds of small carbon pellets into the emissions treatment system of the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility.
Tank by tank, batch by batch, the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) & tank operations contractor Washington River Protection (WRPS) are reducing risk to the environment by retrieving waste from the Hanford Site’s single-shell waste-storage tanks.
Two EM prime contractors recently teamed up to provide hands-on training at the Hanford Site to increase safety and prevent contamination in the event of an emergency response.
The first batch of approximately 200,000 gallons of tank waste has been treated by the Hanford Site’s Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) System and is staged in a double-shell tank for immobilization in glass.
With small businesses a key contract component across the EM complex, prime contractors at the Hanford Site are collaborating to connect with potential subcontractors and offer firsthand assistance to small businesses.