Successful collaborations have fueled EM’s progress over the past 18 months, enabling a series of achievements while emphasizing health and safety protections during the COVID-19 pandemic.
EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) and its tank operations contractor are constructing a new facility on the Hanford Site to house about 160 craft personnel under one roof and improve the efficiency of tank farm operations.
EM has reduced the amount of time to qualify a salt waste batch at the Savannah River Site (SRS), enabling a steady stream of the material to the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF).
EM’s Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) has successfully processed more than 1 million gallons of radioactive waste at Savannah River Site (SRS) since the first-of-a-kind facility began processing the legacy material in October 2020.
Teamwork between EM Office of River Protection contractors at the Hanford Site will ensure legacy tank waste is ready for treatment and vitrification.
Staff completed the first commissioning test for one of 37 remote-operated cranes inside the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility at the EM Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, bringing the plant one step closer to treating nuclear tank waste.
EM’s Office of River Protection and its tank operations contractor Washington River Protections Solutions are an important step closer to treating tank waste at the Hanford Site after the recent installation of two critical pumps.
An EM project team recently completed upgrades to a waste tank at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to ready it for dissolving waste for treatment through Tank Closure Cesium Removal (TCCR).
The EM Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team recently finished all startup testing and system handovers for the Effluent Management Facility (EMF), marking its full transition into the commissioning phase.
EM's Office of River Protection (ORP) and tank farms operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) continue to advance a comprehensive program to ensure the structural integrity of the Hanford Site’s underground waste storage tanks.