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High-Level & Tank Waste

Coverage of DOE-EM’s efforts to retrieve, treat, and immobilize high-level radioactive tank waste at Hanford, Savannah River, and other sites — including the Waste Treatment Plant and Defense Waste Processing Facility.

  • A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.
    High-Level & Tank Waste

    PARSONS MAKES LEADERSHIP CHANGE AT SWPF

    Parsons has removed Mark Breor as project manager of the Salt Waste Processing Facility project at the Savannah River Site, replacing him with company executive Lou Jackson. Breor has served as project manager on the construction project since 2008. Jackson most recently served as Parsons’ Senior Vice President for the Chemical Demilitarization Division. Parsons did […]

  • A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.
    High-Level & Tank Waste

    DOE LOOKING AT LOWER FUNDING LEVEL FOR WTP IN FY2013

    As the Department of Energy prepares its Fiscal Year 2013 budget request, DOE appears to have centered on a funding level far lower than the $970 million it planned to request as part of a modified funding profile for the WTP established last year. Though talks with the White House Office of Management and Budget […]

  • A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.
    High-Level & Tank Waste

    SRR TO CLOSE LESS THAN HALF AS MANY SRS TANKS AS ORIGINALLY PLANNED

    Savannah River Remediation, LLC, the liquid waste cleanup contractor at the Savannah River Site, is set to close far fewer underground waste tanks by the end of its contract than initially planned. While URS-led SRR was initially expected to complete the closure of Savannah River’s 22 remaining ‘noncompliant’ tanks by 2017, the contractor is now […]

  • A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.
    High-Level & Tank Waste

    DNFSB TO HOLD HEARING ON WTP SAFETY CULTURE NEXT SPRING

    The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board plans to a hold a hearing next spring on the safety culture at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant. The hearing is intended to examine what improvements have been made since the Board issued a recommendation this summer warning of an environment at the WTP where workers feel afraid to […]

  • A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.
    High-Level & Tank Waste

    HANFORD VIT PLANT AT RISK FOR NEW COST GROWTH, REPORT SAYS

    The Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, already one of the Department of Energy’s most expensive projects, is at risk of another cost increase of almost half-a-billion dollars, according to a report DOE released late this week. 

  • A worker in safety gear inspecting large concrete storage modules built to hold spent nuclear fuel containers.
    High-Level & Tank Waste

    AT RIVER PROTECTION

    UNION SUES WRPS OVER TERMINATED EMPLOYEES The Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council is suing Hanford tank farms contractor Washington River Protection Solutions over what the union alleges is the unfair termination of four employees last year. In its lawsuit, filed Jan. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, HAMTC accuses […]

  • Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.
    Cleanup & Remediation

    AT RICHLAND

    DOE LOOKS TO TRUCK CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER The Department of Energy is proposing pumping up and trucking the “perched” underground contaminated water at Hanford’s 200-DV-1 Operable Unit  to the new 200 West Pump and Treat Facility in central Hanford. Some of the contaminated water already has been cleaned in a successful test at Hanford’s Effluent Treatment […]