As the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington nears completion of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Low-Activity Waste Facility, Bechtel National Inc. revealed the successful completion of assembly of two nuclear waste melters inside the facility, each at 300 tons.
The completion of the first of two 300-ton nuclear waste melters at Hanford’s Vit Plant has contractor Bechtel National Inc. looking forward to continued progress on what is arguably the nation’s most complex construction project.