Items Tagged with 'vitrification'

Most complex DOE nuclear waste site remediation seeks record $3.1B funding for fiscal 2025 as core 10-year management contact is finally awarded after long bidding dispute.

First of two record-size 300-ton melters at federal Hanford waste site reached 2,100°F critical temperature July 20 after shutdown last year due to component overheating.

Cause of sudden death was not disclosed of exec who led the $17B Hanford nuclear waste vitrification plant project, but Bechtel has named company veteran Brian Hartman as new project director.