Vitrification & Grout

Hanford PUREX Waste Tunnel Grouting Begins

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Crews at the Hanford Site in Washington state on Tuesday night started injecting grout to stabilize the Hanford PUREX Plant waste storage tunnel discovered last spring to be partially collapsed, but halted work as some dirt began to subside into the tunnel, the…

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Vitrification & Grout

Hanford vit plant turns 250K gallons of liquid waste into glass

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DOE plans to “modernize” and reduce size of Hanford advisory board

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DOE Hanford contractor gives out three grout subcontracts

Vitrification & Grout

DOE prepares to grout secondary waste byproduct from Hanford EMF

Vitrification & Grout

EM-1 Walsh wants greater “urgency” on state grout permit for Hanford

Vitrification & Grout

Washington Ecology boss OK with grout, but wants focus on glass

High-Level & Tank Waste

Hanford WTP turns 100,000 gallons of waste into glass form

Vitrification & Grout

DOE has many details to work out in Hanford grout plan

Vitrification & Grout

WTP early glassmaking to hit full stride by 2028

Cleanup & Remediation

Wright says Hanford budget haircut won’t slow ongoing glass making

The interior of an industrial furnace used for melting glass at high temperatures.
Vitrification & Grout

First vitrified glass waste goes into Hanford disposal facility

The Department of Energy said Wednesday it has deposited its first big batch of glass logs, made from liquid radioactive tank waste, at the Hanford Site’s Integrated Disposal Facility at Richland, Wash. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management and contractor… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
Vitrification & Grout

Glass-making vit plant at Savannah River turns 30

High-Level & Tank Waste

Latest Hanford WTP cost estimate $18.5B, not counting HLW

Vitrification & Grout

DOE seeks Hanford permit mod to grout some secondary waste

Vitrification & Grout

WTP solidified 40K gallons of waste in 25; ops resume after Christmas outage

Vitrification & Grout

DOE gets more time to decide where to grout Hanford waste

High-Level & Tank Waste

Hanford WTP filled 26 containers of glass during 2025

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