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

    Hanford turns 250K gallons of liquid waste into glass

    The Department of Energy Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site in Richland, Wash., has now converted 250,000 gallons of less radioactive tank waste into solid glass form. In September, over 39,000 gallons were vitrified into glass form at the WTP’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) Facility, Bechtel National, which built the plant, […]

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

    DOE marks 20th anniversary of Fernald cleanup

    The Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management last month marked the 20th anniversary of final remediation of the Fernald Site, a former uranium processing facility 20 miles outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. Over 250 people turned out for a Sept. 19 commemoration of the Cold War nuclear site that operated from 1951 until 1986 when […]