At the southern tip of the Hanford Site, the soil beneath the 300 Area contains residual uranium from a handful of removed settling ponds & trenches.
One of the largest cleanup challenges in the world is the 580-square-mile Hanford Site.
DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of EM (OREM) has completed site preparations necessary to begin construction of the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility.
Whether it’s minerals in your sprinkler pipes or a buildup of grease in your kitchen drain, the concept and concern are the same.
Leaders from the communities near the Hanford Site recently visited a mock-up where workers test and train on equipment.
Workers recently removed a former pump-and-treat system at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) site, allowing for continued cleanup progress
Worker-driven improvements led crews to treat a record amount of groundwater at the Hanford Site in FY2018 at the lowest cost per gallon in 5 years.
A significant effort at the Hanford Site will reduce the risk of below-ground uranium reaching the Columbia River.
EM's ORP and WRPS go to great lengths to learn more about the nature and extent of contamination around and beneath Hanford’s waste storage tanks.
Hanford Site workers added a critical component to a training facility this month to eventually help remove radioactive soil.