Hanford Site
A DOE-EM site in Washington state and the nation’s largest nuclear cleanup project, home to millions of gallons of high-level radioactive tank waste and the Waste Treatment Plant built to vitrify it.
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Cleanup & RemediationJudge Denies Injunction Request for Increased Worker Protections at Hanford
A federal judge on Tuesday denied a motion for a preliminary injunction to increase protections from chemical vapors for Hanford Site workers until a lawsuit is decided. Judge Thomas Rice of U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington denied all three of the measures requested by Washington state, the local watchdog organization Hanford Challenge, and Plumbers and […]
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High-Level & Tank WasteLast Major Equipment Placed in Hanford LAW Facility
The last major piece of equipment for the Hanford Site Waste Treatment Plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility arrived this week and was placed in the plant. The facility over the summer received two of the three major components of melter off-gas system. The final component of the system to arrive was the caustic scrubber manufactured by […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
WRPS Boss Opens Door After IG Report on Worker Fears
After the Energy Department’s inspector general prodded the company for failing to communicate openly with its workforce, the president of Washington River Protection Solutions on Wednesday threw open his door to employees working on the waste tank farm at DOE’s Hanford Site in Washington state. “If you have any concerns, I invite you to share them […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
WRPS Lauds Ruling in Vapor Case as DOE IG Urges Better Communication at Hanford
The Energy Department’s prime contractor at the Hanford Site tank farms found affirmation in a federal judge’s ruling this week that workers at the Washington state site do not immediately need extra protection from the noxious vapors that sometimes leak from the site’s Cold War-era liquid waste tanks. U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice ruled against […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Judge Denies Injunction Request for Increased Worker Protections at Hanford
A federal judge on Tuesday denied a motion for a preliminary injunction to increase protections from chemical vapors for Hanford Site workers until a lawsuit is decided. Judge Thomas Rice of U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington denied all three of the measures requested by Washington state, the local watchdog organization Hanford Challenge, and Plumbers and […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Hanford Liquid Cleanup OK in Budget, but Big Cuts for Other Areas Proposed
Liquid waste cleanup at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state would see relatively stable funding under the fiscal 2017 budget released Tuesday, while funding for other cleanup in the central region of the nearly 600-square-mile site would tumble by nearly 20 percent. For the Office of River Protection (ORP), which focuses on projects […]
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Defense Low-Level WasteWaste to be Piled Higher at Hanford Landfill
Hanford Site officials plan to pile waste above grade at the massive central Hanford landfill to expand its capacity rather than digging a new waste cell immediately. Plans call for adding another 20 feet of layered waste and soil to the top of the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility. Initially, ERDF was planned to stand about […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
At Hanford
Washington State Appoints Interim Nuclear Waste Program Chief The Washington State Department of Ecology has named an interim manager of its Nuclear Waste Program starting March 1. Tom Tebb, the manager of Ecology’s Office of Columbia River, will do both jobs until the department permanently fills the position that oversees the state’s regulation of the […]