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To receive the radioactive wastes from the chemical separations process, there were "tank farms" consisting of 64 single-shell underground waste tanks. [70] The first batch of plutonium was refined in the 221‑T plant from December 26, 1944, to February 2, 1945, and delivered to the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico on February 5, 1945. [71]
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.
A 1944 pamphlet providing new employees with a detailed map and lists all the amenities to be found in the Hanford area. A 1945 pictorial record on the construction of the Hanford Engineer Works " Hanford Trailer City and Environment ", a series of public domain photos selected from the Hanford Declassified Project.
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 ...
Work has started to remove waste from Tank AX-101, one of four tanks with a 1 million-gallon capacity each in the group called the AX Tank Farm in the center of the 586-square-mile Hanford site.
The current tank farm contractor employs about 2,300 workers and relies on an additional 300 subcontractor workers. No workforce impacts are expected if stable funding for the Hanford site ...
Hanford 100-Area : Benton: Soils contaminated by radiological and chemical waste from plutonium manufacture for the Manhattan Project and subsequent activities. Groundwater contaminated by strontium-90, carbon-14, tritium and hexavalent chromium and discharges into the Columbia River, which is the water supply for over 170,000 people. [33]
Amentum already has a strong presence at Hanford as the owner of the current tank farm contractor with Atkins, leading the Central Plateau Cleanup Co. team and as the primary subcontractor at the ...