Hanford Field Office

The Hanford site, a 580-square-mile section of semi-arid desert in southeast Washington, was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project to produce plutonium for national defense. Hanford produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the US nuclear weapons stockpile, including materials for the Trinity Test and atomic bombs used to help end World War II. 

Hanford Photo Gallery

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An individual participates in fire readiness training activities
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Hanford Site firefighters are training on emergency response at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant as part of their readiness training for startup of waste treatment.
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An aerial view of the inside of a storage waste tank
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Solid radioactive and chemical waste inside Tank A-102 at the Hanford Site before workers started breaking it up to remove waste.
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An employee in a white safety suit holds a clipboard and looks at two other employees
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Bechtel National Inc. Manager Joni Weamer practices putting on and taking off protective clothing during radiological worker training at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.
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An aerial view of the Hanford Integrated Disposal Facility at the Hanford Site
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An aerial view of the Integrated Disposal Facility. The engineered landfill will allow for safe disposal of vitrified low-activity waste from the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.
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Students visit the Volpentest HAMMER Federal Training Center's Search & Rescue Building.
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Ben Culver, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions’ Industrial Safety Training manager at the Volpentest HAMMER Federal Training Center, guides students through the facility’s Search & Rescue Building as part of a recent Hanford STEM Day event.
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An employee in a white hazmat suit performs maintenance works inside a facility building
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A worker performs maintenance inside the Hanford Site’s Tank-Side Cesium Removal System before the start of the latest processing campaign. So far, the system has processed more than 830,000 gallons of tank waste.
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An upclose shot of a scientist wearing gloves and protective gear while preparing a red slurry in a beaker
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Navarro-ATL scientists prepare a slurry of treated tank waste and glass-forming compounds that were used to create a laboratory-scale test of vitrified tank waste.
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A group of people in white safety hats smile for a group photo
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New and returning members of the Hanford Advisory Board (HAB) tour a full-size mock-up of a single-shell waste-storage tank at the site’s Cold Test Facility.
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A large white facility plant with lots of tubes, structures and tanks within it
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The Hanford Site’s largest groundwater treatment plant was recently expanded to increase flow rate from 2,500 to 3,400 gallons per minute, allowing the facility to treat an additional 475 million gallons of groundwater each year.
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Two men inside a room with lots of pipes and pumps covering the wall, one man is crouched down looking at a pump and the other is holding a clipboard and writing
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Workers observed and monitored equipment in the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant during commissioning of a transfer line for wastewater.
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An individual participates in fire readiness training activities
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Hanford Site firefighters are training on emergency response at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant as part of their readiness training for startup of waste treatment.

Hanford Site firefighters are training on emergency response at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant as part of their readiness training for startup of waste treatment.

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Manager

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Ray Geimer, Hanford Manager

 

Ray Geimer is the manager of the DOE Hanford Field Office. In this capacity, Geimer is responsible for an overall annual budget of $3 billion, and oversight of the contractors and more than 13,000 employees involved in cleanup of the 580-square-mile Hanford site. In his role as manager, Geimer is responsible for the safe and environmentally acceptable cleanup of the site, including groundwater remediation; hazardous waste and facilities decontamination and disposal operations; treatment and disposal of radioactive chemical liquid waste; and the design, construction and commissioning of the world’s largest complex of nuclear vitrification facilities, the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.

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Office FY24 Request (in the millions) FY24 Enacted (in the millions) FY25 Request (in the millions) FY25 Enacted (in the millions) FY26 Request (in the millions)
Office of River Protection $1,975 $1,890 $2,001 $1,937 $2,100
Richland Operations $1,025 $1,146 $1,107 $1,134 $971

For more information on the Office of Environmental Management's budget process and performance check out the Budget & Performance page.

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