Photography of one of the most historic buildings at the Hanford Site is on its way to the Library of Congress as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s participation in the nationwide Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) process.
One Hanford employees continue to do outreach in the community to inspire and support student interests in science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) and contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently demonstrated a potential new approach to refurbish double-shell tanks (DSTs) at the Hanford Site.
Crews at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) have poured the first test glass from a second melter into a stainless steel container in the plant’s Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility.
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company has begun assembling a cask storage system that will support moving almost 2,000 radioactive capsules out of a water-filled basin into safer dry storage, a significant step in risk reduction at the Hanford Site.
Laboratory testing at the Hanford Site confirms that over 200,000 gallons of treated radioactive waste is ready to be vitrified, or immobilized in glass.
More than 50 high school students recently visited the Hanford Site’s Volpentest HAMMER Federal Training Center to learn about STEM career opportunities at the Hanford Site.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) Office of River Protection and contractor Bechtel National Inc. recently created a plan for completing the High-Level Waste (HLW) Facility at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.
An internship program administered by U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions is preparing a workforce with skills to meet future cleanup needs at the Hanford Site, an example of how the One Hanford team is developing and retaining new talent.
Workers with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently demonstrated two improved methods they intend to use for removing an old hydraulic pump from a large, underground tank storing radioactive and chemical waste at the Hanford Site.