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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 public will get a chance to tour B Reactor, the main attraction of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park’s Hanford site, before it is shut down for repairs later this year.. The ...
DOE is negotiating a lease of land just north of Richland, WA. The largest area of land planned for industrial use at Hanford is in the southeast corner of the site and the proposed Hecate project ...
Green areas on this map of Hanford land just north of Richland show the land most important for Tri-Cities development, particularly the area marked as “Corridor,” according to the Tri-City ...
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 awarded the contract to Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure, H2C for short, for the first time in April 2023. H2C is made up of BWXT Technical Services , Amentum Environment and Energy ...
BWXT was awarded the environmental management contract for DOE’s Savannah River, S.C., site in 2021.. Fluor is best known at Hanford for being the site’s main cleanup contractor from 1996 to ...
After the war, Hanford remained a cornerstone of the local economy and culture. Uncounted thousands of Tri-Cities residents have worked there. Now eyes are on the future and what to do with about ...