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Dec What's Happening

Workers make progress at the Integrated Disposal Facility, testing is underway on a tank waste treatment system and workers go "rad" at the Waste Treatment Plant. Below is a snapshot of what happened across the Hanford Site in March. 

Ground-level view of the Integrated Disposal Facility.

Disposal Facility Takes Shape to Support Tank Waste Treatment Mission

Workers continue to make progress on construction of the Integrated Disposal Facility, a key component of the Hanford Site’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste program to begin treating tank waste. Read more


An employee with Washington River Protection Solutions is near a forklift near the Tank-Side Cesium Removal system.

Hanford Prepares to Test Tank Waste Treatment System

Washington River Protection Solutions has begun testing a critical piece of equipment needed to treat Hanford Site tank waste. Read more.


Bernice Bunker & Justin Korenkiewicz are two recently hired laboratory & radiological technicians Bechtel plans to hire and train this year.

Hanford Staffs Laboratory to Prepare Waste Treatment Plant for Cold Commissioning

Bechtel National, Inc. is hiring and training dozens of laboratory and radiological technicians to prepare for cold commissioning of Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. Read more


A worker on the Hanford Site delivers a pump for a modernization project that will upgrade the Hanford Site’s untreated water system.

Hanford Water System Taps into Automation

Workers will soon begin testing and commissioning upgrades to one of two water systems on the Hanford Site to ensure the site’s infrastructure will support long-term cleanup activities. Read more


Commissioning Technician Quirino Quiroga learns to don and doff personal protective equipment as part of radiological worker training.

Training Goes "Rad" at Hanford Waste Treatment Plant

The word “rad” has finally arrived at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, and it’s not for a 1980s throwback. Read more


Comments and input on the What's Happening @HanfordSite newsletter can be sent to: Patrick Conrad, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, at Patrick_J_Conrad@rl.gov.    

 

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