The Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant is being designed, built, and commissioned by Bechtel National, Inc. for DOE’s Office of River Protection.
That is where the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant comes in. The Cleanup Originally designed in the 1990s and fast-tracked for construction in 2000, the massive facility’s job will be to convert – or vitrify – the waste into a glass form for safe storage...
The Hanford Waste Treatment Project site in Washington State has one of the largest concentrations of radioactive waste in the world where 53 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste - 60% by volume of the US total - is stored in 177 old and deteriorating underground tanks just seven ...
A publication for the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Project Special Edition, October 2009 2001 OVERVIEW Starting in the 1940s, the Hanford Site, located in southeastern Washington state, was the largest of three defense production sites in the U.S. Over the span of 40 years, it was used to...
Ventilation and mixing systems in the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) are being designed to account for the flammable gas hydrogen that will form in process streams, just as it also does in the radioactive liquid wastes awaiting immobilization at the Hanford Tank Farms. ...
Installation of Massive Doors Is Key to Hanford Waste Plant.The article reports on the installation of massive, 50-ton shield doors at the waste treatment facility of the U.S. Energy Department Hanford site in Washington. The shield door was installed in the melter area, the central area of...
The waste must be immobilized and permanently stored, and the plan is to separate the tank wastes into low activity waste (LAW) and high-level waste (HLW) streams. The U.S. Department of Energy is building a Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at Hanford site to separately vitrify ...
The phased approach would start with immobilizing the low-activity portion of the waste. It would go straight to the plant’s low activity waste facility, bypassing the pre-treatment facility. DOE also suggests that immobilization of the tank waste should begin "as soon as practicable" and propo...
The goal is to have a supply of such waste ready to be vitrified into a glass form when the Waste Treatment Plant is due to start processing direct-feed low-activity waste by the end of 2023. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed into law on March 11 a bil...
“Nothing I have ever done has prepared me for this,” says Rick Holmes, general manager for the Waste Treatment Completion Company, a joint operation of Bechtel and AECOM working to build the plant creating the glass. “It is bigger, there are more things and the complexity of the site ...