
EM Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) is installing a new wastewater filter system at the Effluent Treatment Facility (ETF) to increase waste processing throughput & improve efficiency.

Twenty-five years ago this month, the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) began radioactive operations.

Workers continue to make progress on construction of the Integrated Disposal Facility, a key component of the Hanford Site’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste program to begin treating tank waste.

The word “rad” has finally arrived at the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford Site, and it’s not for a 1980s throwback.

EM federal and contractor officials outlined the status of three significant radioactive liquid waste treatment initiatives at the Waste Management Symposia 2021.

EM Hanford Site Manager Brian Vance led a Waste Management Symposia 2021 panel with leaders from the site’s major cleanup contractors to discuss transformative leadership during a period of dynamic change.

EM’s Office of River Protection contractor for the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI), has earned $5.54 million, or 70.4% of the available award fee of $7.87 million for the performance evaluation period.
The first wall section is now rising from the ground on the newest mega-sized disposal unit being constructed at EM’s Savannah River Site.

Office of River Protection tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions has begun testing a critical piece of equipment.

EM Office of River Protection contractor Bechtel National, Inc. is hiring and training dozens of laboratory and radiological technicians.