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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.
The N-Reactor at the Hanford site along the Columbia River. Aerial Photo of the N-Reactor. Taken January 2013. Fuel element from N-Reactor. The N-Reactor was a water/graphite-moderated nuclear reactor constructed during the Cold War and operated by the U.S. government at the Hanford Site in Washington; it began production in 1963.
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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 ...
Exterior of the Hanford B Reactor as of 2018 Hanford B Reactor Control Station as of 2018 Hanford B Reactor Tubes and Elevator as of 2018 The United States Department of Energy has administered the site since 1977 [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and offers public tours on set dates during the spring, summer, and fall of the year, as well as special tours for ...
WNP-1/4 and WNP-2 (now Columbia Generating Station) should not be confused with the proposed Skagit/Hanford plant. Skagit/Hanford was a proposal advanced by a consortium of utilities led by Puget Sound Power & Light (40% share) and joined by Portland General Electric (30%), Pacific Light and Power (20%) and Washington Water Power (10%) to build ...
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.