The Waste Treatment Plant (Vit Plant) is the cornerstone of cleanup at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford site. It will provide a solution to Hanford's radioactive chemical waste from nearly 50 years of nuclear weapons production. The largest DOE construction project, the Vit Plant, once completed, will use a process known as vitrification to treat and stabilize the waste by blending it with molten glass and placing it in stainless steel canisters. This is a short video commemorating our accomplishments in 2007 as we move this first-of-a-kind plant closer to completion.

The Waste Treatment Plant (Vit Plant) is the cornerstone of cleanup at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford site. It will provide a solution to Hanford's radioactive chemical waste from nearly 50 years of nuclear weapons production. The largest DOE construction project, the Vit Plant, once completed, will use a process known as vitrification to treat and stabilize the waste by blending it with molten glass and placing it in stainless steel canisters.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection along with Waste Treatment Plant employees celebrated a project milestone in November 2005, by “topping out” the Low-Activity Waste Facility’s structural steel skeleton. Between groundbreaking and ribbon-cutting ceremonies lies another ceremony in the construction of a new building - topping out. The long-honored tradition of topping out a building means installing the uppermost piece of structural steel where the building has reached its pinnacle height. In this case the height of the building is 68-feet. The milestone also marked the project’s ability to start installing LAW exterior siding and roofing.