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The 10-year contract covers work at the Hanford site tank farms, where 56 million gallons of radioactive waste are stored in underground tanks, and operation of the vitrification plant to treat ...
The losing bidder for the contract, Hanford Tank Disposition Alliance, or HTDA, said in a new lawsuit filed in federal court that the Department of Energy unfairly changed the rules of its ...
The Department of Energy has announced the transition to a new $45 billion contract over at least a decade to manage and treat radioactive waste in underground tanks at the Hanford nuclear site.
The challenge filed by Hanford Tank Disposition Alliance has been sealed by the court. The company said its filing includes proprietary information, trade secrets and confidential financial ...
The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km 2) – roughly equivalent to half the total area of Rhode Island – within Benton County, Washington. [1] [2] It is a desert environment receiving less than ten inches (250 mm) of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation.
In May 2020, DOE awarded a 10-year, $13 billion contract to manage Hanford tank waste to a team headed by BWXT and Fluor with primary subcontractors Intera and DBD. It did not include the ...
The Vit Plant will first process Hanford's low-activity waste liquids, starting as soon as 2023, as part of the Department of Energy's Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) approach. Under DFLAW, waste will be sent from the tank farms to the Vit Plant's Low-Activity Waste Facility for vitrification.
DOE commits in the holistic agreement to grout the waste it empties from 22 tanks in the 200 West Area of Hanford, about seven miles from the vitrification plant at the 200 East Area of Hanford ...