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The Hanford site has 149 single-shell tanks built as early as World War II storing waste until it is transferred to a limited number of tanks that better guard against leaks and then treated for ...
The tanks are oozing about 960 gallons a year into soil above groundwater that flows toward Columbia River. 2 Hanford tanks are leaking nuclear waste into the ground. Plan to deal with them settled
Tank leak detection is implemented to alert the operator to a suspected release from any part of a storage tank system, what enables to prevent from soil contamination and loss of product. In many countries regulated UST are required to have an approved leak detection method so that leaks are discovered quickly and the release is stopped in time.
The Department of Energy is going forward with a contract award valued at up to $45 billion to a BWXT-led company to manage the Hanford nuclear site tank farms that store radioactive waste and 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.
Last year officials said one tank may have leaked about 3,000 gallons of waste into the soil. Feds and WA reach deal on leaking Hanford nuclear waste tanks. They won’t be emptied soon
A second legal challenge to the award of a $45 billion contract for environmental cleanup work at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington has been denied.. U.S. Judge Marian Blank Horn ...
PNNL research helped scale a pretreatment method from laboratory testing to a fully operational tank-side cesium removal system that is installed alongside one of Hanford’s underground tanks.