As work moves forward on the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Dept. of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeastern Washington, crews have started the final stage of testing intended to resolve one of the remaining technical issues on the project.
Repositories for disposal of low-level and intermediate radioactive wastes are operating in a number of countries, but high-level wastes require more secure disposal.
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.
Gary Brunson, the U.S. Energy Dept. engineering director at the Hanford $12.2-billion Waste Treatment Plant project, claims Bechtel National Inc. is doing such a poor job of managing engineering at DOE's Washington state site that the contractor should be removed.
