The liquid waste contractor at EM's Savannah River Site is implementing several changes for improving the efficiency and resiliency of equipment inside the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), which will allow the facility to process more salt waste.
Sixteen years after EM broke ground for the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU), the first-of-a-kind facility began treating radioactive liquid waste from underground tanks at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site on the afternoon of Tuesday, April
Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Radiological Engineer Steven Goodrich demonstrates contamination screening using the VIZRAD Frisk simulator.
EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has completed more than 365 days without a work-related injury that required an employee to miss a day on the job.
Bechtel announced today that Valerie McCain, the late project manager at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), was recently named a Top 25 Newsmaker for 2023 by Engineering News-Record magazine.
Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk presented EM two Project Management Awards during a ceremony last week, recognizing exceptional results for complex projects.
Hanford Site workers continue to make headway dissolving solid waste in a large underground storage tank in a campaign to remove and transfer 426,000 gallons of radioactive and chemical waste.
DOE's Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded the Hanford Integrated Tank Disposition Contract to Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure, LLC (H2C) of Lynchburg, VA, for work to be performed at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State.
Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) staff recently performed an emergency preparedness drill simulating a response to an ammonia leak.
The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site initiated operations Tuesday to convert radioactive sodium-bearing liquid waste from nearby tanks.