The Washington State Dept. of Ecology granted permits needed for the Vit Plant's plan to turn waste into vitrified glass and finish building an Effluent Management Facility.
Five of the major support buildings for the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site's Vit Plant have moved beyond construction, startup and testing to commissioning.
As Bechtel and URS build the world’s largest vitrification facility to safely dispose of nearly 56 million gallons of liquid and semisolid nuclear and chemical waste at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State they have created a way to let visitors in on the process.
As the Hanford Vit Plant in southeastern Washington prepares to vitrify 56 million gallons of radioactive waste, the plant gets an assist from a new vessel to help test the process.
