Members of EM leadership recently visited Catholic University’s Vitreous State Laboratory (VSL), a contributor to key innovations in the vitrification technology central to Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) in Washington state.
Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team recently completed startup testing of a radioactive liquid waste disposal system that will play an instrumental role during future operations to treat waste from the site’s large underground tanks.
EM has created a new program in the liquid waste contract at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to simplify the process of transitioning engineering interns into new hires.
Workers have finished installing another surface barrier above a group of large underground waste storage tanks at the Hanford Site. The gravel & asphalt barriers help protect groundwater by diverting water from rain, snow, sleet, or hail to a lined basin
A material resembling small glass beads will serve as a critical ingredient to heating up the first melter at Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) set for later this year.
EM has demonstrated the capability to expand double-stacking high-level waste canisters at the Savannah River Site (SRS), an approach that saves the cleanup program more than $100 million.
A third tank at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has been converted into a blend tank to support feeding waste to the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF).
EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently conducted load testing on a crane that will play a crucial role in assembling spare melters critical to tank waste treatment at the Hanford Site.
A group of students from Florida International University (FIU) will have quite a story to tell when asked to share what they did this summer.
The Integrated Disposal Facility, a key component of the Hanford Site’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program, is a step closer to disposing of treated tank waste, thanks to EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company .