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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 Department of Energy plans to extend the contract for work at the Hanford tank farms for up to two years after a challenge to the latest contract award at the nuclear reservation site in ...
The Department of Energy has awarded an environmental cleanup contract for the Hanford site worth up to $45 billion to a newly formed limited liability company based in Lynchburg, Va.
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.
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 ...
The BPA is the designated marketer for 31 hydroelectric dams and the Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant at the Hanford Site. The dams are owned and operated by either the Army Corps of Engineers (21 dams) or the Bureau of Reclamation (10 dams). [1]
The new contract marks a transition to a new era at the Hanford nuclear reservation. The new firm will operate the Hanford vitrification plant , under construction since 2002 to turn radioactive ...
Hanford hosts a commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, and various centers for scientific research and development, such as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Fast Flux Test Facility and the LIGO Hanford Observatory. In 2015, it was designated as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park ...