What's Happening @HanfordSite July Newsletter

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Dec What's Happening

Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk visits the Hanford Site and meets with tribal and community leaders, a tank farms team completes work on installing another layer of groundwater protection, and a Hanford facility celebrates twenty years of testing new technologies for waste retrieval. Check out what happened across the Hanford Site in July by reading the stories below.
Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk visited the Hanford Site to see firsthand the cleanup progress across the site.

Deputy Secretary Turk Visits Hanford; Meets With Tribal, Community Leaders

Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk made his first trip to the Hanford Site on June 28, visiting a number of cleanup projects with EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White. Read More. 
Inside the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant' Low-Activity Waste Facility that will immobilize tank waste in glass.

Hanford Crew Completes Key First Test of 'Bubblers'

As part of ongoing proficiency testing, crews at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant's Low-Activity Waste Facility recently installed and removed 'bubblers' that will send air to the bottom of the facility's two melters. Read More.
Workers install perforated piping on top of a plastic liner that makes up the floor of an evapotranspiration basin at the U Farm at the Hanford Site.

Hanford Site Installing Another Layer of Protection for Groundwater

Installation of an evapotranspiration basin that will provide additional groundwater protection at one of the Hanford Site’s groupings of large underground waste tanks is nearing completion. Read More. 
One of the first deployments of a new drone program at the Hanford Site was at the historic B Reactor.

Hanford Deploys Drone Program to Assist Site Inspections

Crews have launched an unmanned aircraft system drone program at the Hanford Site, offering a new capability to improve operating processes in the field. Read More.
Cynthia Synar, planner and beekeeper with contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company, carefully places a swarm of bees in a box for relocation.

Hanford 'Sting' Operation Safely Relocates Native Bees

Workers with DOE prime contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company relocate a large colony of native bees away from several environmental cleanup projects in the area near the Hanford Site’s former K Reactors. Read More.
The Cold Test Facility went into service in 2002 and features a full-scale mock-up of a single-shell waste storage tank.

Hanford Facility Marks 20 Years of Testing New Technologies for Waste Retrieval

Twenty years ago, a mock-up single-shell tank on the Hanford Site went into service, allowing workers to safely test prototype systems and train in a nonradioactive environment. Read More.

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

 

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