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2. Hanford Site - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility - Wikipedia

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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.

4. The Hanford Site is America's most contaminated nuclear ... - AOL

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   The Hanford Site is the most polluted area in the US, though cleanup started decades ago.. Estimates say it will take decades more and up to $640 billion to finish the job. The site just received ...

5. WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly ...

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   Highlights include starting treatment of the Hanford site tank waste for disposal on the current schedule of 2025 for the least-radioactive waste and 2033 for the high-level radioactive waste.

6. After 20+ years, success at Hanford’s huge nuclear waste ...

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   The 586-square-mile Hanford site adjacent to Richland in Eastern Washington was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce almost two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear ...

7. Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant

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   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.

8. Work to finally start under disputed $45B contract for ...

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   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 ...

9. $45 billion Hanford nuclear waste cleanup contract awarded to ...

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   The 580-square-mile Hanford site in Eastern Washington adjacent to Richland was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear ...