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The Tri-Party Agreement agencies announce a landmark agreement on future cleanup, Hanford brings a second melter online and a national training working group visits the Site. Read these and more articles in the recent Hanford Site monthly newsletter.

State of Washington, federal agencies agree on future of tank waste cleanup at Hanford Site

The U.S. Department of Energy, Washington State Department of Ecology, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a landmark agreement that proposes a realistic and achievable course for cleaning up millions of gallons of radioactive and chemical waste from large, underground tanks at the Hanford Site. Read more.

Crews Demolish Support Area Near Former Hanford Processing Facility

Crews at the Hanford Site are reducing risk at the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, one of the site’s five former chemical separations facilities. Read more.

Hanford Plant Brings Second Melter Online

Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant recently brought the second of two 300-ton melters up to the operating temperature of 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit as part of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste Program. Read more.

National Training Working Group Gathers at Hanford

The HAMMER Federal Training Center and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory co-hosted this year’s gathering of the Training Working Group of the Energy Facility Contractors Group at the Hanford Site. Read more.

Hanford Completes Offsite Shipment of Sodium Waste

Recent completion of a project at the Hanford Site marked a significant accomplishment, as crews from Central Plateau Cleanup Company loaded and shipped 15 drums of sodium waste from the site’s former research reactors for offsite treatment. Read more.

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