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The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, known as the Vit Plant, will process the nuclear waste at the Hanford Site in Washington into a solid glass form using vitrification. A proven technology that has been used at the Savannah River Site [1] and West Valley Demonstration Project, vitrification involves mixing the waste with ...
Hanford Site. Coordinates: 46°38′51″N 119°35′55″W. Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960. The N Reactor is in the foreground, with the twin KE and KW Reactors in the immediate background. The historic B Reactor, the world's first plutonium production reactor, is visible in the ...
Washington Nuclear Project Nos. 1 and 4, abbreviated as WNP-1 and WNP-4 were two of the five nuclear power plants on which construction was started by the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) in order to meet projected electricity demand in the Pacific Northwest. WNP-1, WNP-2 and WNP-3 were part of the original 1968 plan, with WNP-4 (a ...
April 16, 2023 at 9:42 PM. The Department of Energy has awarded a Hanford site contract with an estimated value of up to $45 billion over a decade to a newly formed limited liability company. The ...
New Hanford contract planned. The company has held contracts since 2012 to provide occupational medicine services at the nuclear reservation to ensure the health and safety of about 9,000 workers ...
DOE awards $208M contract for Hanford site in Eastern WA to out-of-state company. The Department of Energy has awarded a contract to provide occupational medical services valued at up to $208 ...
WPPSS applied for a construction and operation permit in 1973, and both WNP-3 and WNP-5 started construction in 1977. Cost overruns led to major management changes at all five WPPSS nuclear plants in 1980. Bechtel was appointed the construction manager for WNP-1, 2 and 4 at Hanford and EBASCO brought in a new management team for WNP-3 and 5 at ...
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