Hanford Waste Treatment Plant completes fifth concrete wall elevation for largest facility
Wed, November 16, 2011Richland, Wash. —Last week, crews at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, also known as the "Vit Plant," finished installing the Pretreatment Facility's fifth elevation of concrete walls. The fifth elevation reaches approximately 97 feet at the top.
To place the final walls, crews used a specialized concrete pumping truck with an extendable arm that reaches approximately 200 feet vertically or …
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Hanford Waste Treatment Plant receives decontamination vessels for High-Level Waste Facility
Thu, October 27, 2011Richland, Wash. — Recently, the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, also known as the "Vit Plant," received two decontamination vessels that are essential to safely removing glass-filled canisters from the High-Level Waste Facility. The titanium steel vessels weigh 4,200 pounds and measure 2.5 feet in diameter and 18 feet tall.
When operational, the High-Level Waste Facility will vitrify high-level radioactive waste …
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Hanford Waste Treatment Plant receives key equipment for air-filtration system
Fri, October 7, 2011Richland, Wash. — The Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, also known as the "Vit Plant," recently received the first of 32 large nuclear quality dampers for the High-Level Waste Facility. The 1,350-pound dampers are part of the facility's extensive filter system and will be essential to maintaining contamination boundaries during plant operations.
Twenty of the 32 stainless steel dampers will isolate …
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Hanford Waste Treatment Plant receives and sets key bridge crane in High-Level Waste Facility
Mon, September 12, 2011Richland, Wash. — Crews at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, also known as the "Vit Plant," recently received and set a bridge crane that is key to progressing construction of the High-Level Waste Facility. The three-ton-capacity crane needed to be in place before essential piping and hangers could be installed above and around it.
"It took an incredible amount of …
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Hanford Waste Treatment Plant welcomes review by leading nuclear safety experts
Mon, August 22, 2011Richland, Wash. — A team of executive-level nuclear safety experts is now conducting an independent and comprehensive review of the nuclear safety and quality culture at the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
Members of the independent panel bring many decades of high-level experience working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy (DOE), and Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety …
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