EM officials speaking at the 2021 RadWaste Summit last week detailed progress at the Savannah River, Idaho, and Hanford sites in the treatment of tank waste, the most significant challenge facing the environmental cleanup program.
Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant has successfully completed a loss-of-offsite-power commissioning test, a critical step toward the heatup of melters and vitrification, or immobilization within glass.
EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) immobilized more decontaminated salt solution (DSS) in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 than in the previous five years combined.
The Hanford Site’s critical Effluent Treatment Facility (ETF) is nearly ready to once again treat wastewater generated by numerous remediation activities.
Construction of a new water treatment facility has begun on the Hanford Site, in support of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) Program and future cleanup work at the site.
EM has authorized the use of a second mega-volume saltstone disposal unit (SDU) at Savannah River Site (SRS) after the project was completed ahead of schedule and under cost.
Record-breaking heat and the sheer size of the job could not stop the EM Office of River Protection and its tank operations contractor from safely completing a construction project critical to the Hanford Site’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program.
A new animation of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) Program at the Hanford Site shows the integrated procedure that achieves tank waste treatment. That process is a key component of EM’s strategic cleanup vision.
A group of women engineers with EM Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) has established a series of monthly lunchtime presentations aimed at empowering and mentoring woman engineers.
EM and it’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have developed a unique commercial mixer pump to use in a tank with space limitations, allowing waste retrieval efforts to advance in the tank farms.