Tank Waste

Columbia Basin College President Rebekah Woods, left, and student ambassador Megan Holm, center, lead Washington River Protection Solutions President and Project Manager Wes Bryan on a tour of the college campus in Pasco, Washington.
Adding to the growing list of cooperative, or co-op, programs with colleges and universities, EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) has launched a new pathway to jobs on the Hanford Site.
The crane and rigging crew at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant plans and performs delivery and installation of equipment ranging from 300-ton melters to crawler cranes.
Whether by barge, truck or train, when large pieces of equipment arrive at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) on the Hanford Site, the crane and rigging team is trusted to plan and perform delivery and installation.
Nicholas Spivey, left, a mechanical engineer with Instrumentation, Robotics, and Imaging Systems at Savannah River National Laboratory, and Kurt Gerdes, director of EM’s Office of Technology Development, use virtual reality simulation of an EM worksite during meetings held at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola.
Donning devices that help relieve stress on workers’ muscles and joints or create a virtual reality simulating a worksite, more than 40 members of a team recently met in person for the first time since fiscal 2020 to evaluate technology.
Savannah River Site liquid waste contractor Savannah River Mission Completion is partnering with engineering students from Claflin University to develop an improved method for removing and replacing the media inside the Salt Waste Processing Facility's strip effluent coalescer. Above, the media is shown on its transport cart.
EM’s liquid waste contractor at Savannah River Site (SRS) has partnered with Claflin University to challenge the students to improve the method for removing and replacing radioactively contaminated equipment inside the Salt Waste Processing Facility.
The Low-Activity Waste Melter Assembly, Storage and Transportation facility near the Hanford Site is a repurposed building that was retrofitted and expanded to support the assembly of 300-ton melters for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.
EM Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) is ready to begin assembling additional melters to support the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) Program at the Hanford Site.