Clean power developer Hecate aims to build arrays on 8,000 acres of federal land at former nuclear weapons megasite under Biden program to use expanses of real estate at locations across the US for renewables.
US Supreme Court justices rule that 2018 Washington state law allowing more federal and federal contractor employees to claim benefits related to cleanup work at US Energy Dept nuclear site violates the US Constitution.
As the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant -- more commonly referred to as the Vit Plant -- moves toward a process of turning 56 million gallons of radioactive waste into vitrified glass in 2023, the first team of chemists have already set up shop in the plant.
As 2019 turns to 2020, the construction stories that dominated the news over the past year will either carry over into the new year or give way to a new focus.
The shoring of a waste storage tunnel at the Dept. of Energy's Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington proved successful and wraps the response to a May 2017 partial collapse of an adjoining tunnel.
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.
