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The Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF) is a waste disposal facility located at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, Washington, U.S..Built in 1996, ERDF collects low-level waste, mixed waste, and other hazardous materials that are generated at Hanford.
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.
When Hanford first produced nuclear waste, workers buried contaminated clothes and tools in the desert, without recording the locations, The Daily Beast reported in 2013.
High-level waste will be processed and vitrified later in a separate process. [3] The Hanford Site is currently storing 56 million gallons of radioactive waste in aging underground tanks, legacy waste from plutonium production efforts during World War II and the Cold War. The majority of the waste in the tanks is low-activity waste liquids. [4]
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 ...
Grouting Hanford waste. 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 ...
At full production, the vitrification plant’s Low Activity Waste Facility should be processing about 5,300 gallons of waste per day or producing about 23 tons of glass per day, filling 3.5 ...
The Hanford site represents 7-9 percent of America's high-level radioactive waste by volume. Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960. High-level waste (HLW) is a type of nuclear waste created by the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. [1] It exists in two main forms: