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  • Vit Plant Drone Footage

    Check out this quick clip from a drone videoshoot at the Hanford Vit Plant jobsite. This drone video montage showcases the major Vit Plant facilities.

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  • Vit Plant Donates $22,000 to Toys for Tots and Bikes for Tikes

    The Hanford Vit Plant team donated $22,000 in toys and cash to local the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves’ Toys for Tots and Local 598’s Bikes for Tikes campaign.

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  • A Team With a Touch for Equipment at Hanford Site

    The crane and rigging crew at the Vit Plant plans and performs delivery and installation of equipment ranging from 300-ton melters to crawler cranes.

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  • Melter Heatup Initiated

    The journey to melter heatup continues with the Vit Plant team bringing Melter 1 online. The melter heatup process marks the culmination of many years of challenging work - thank you to all past and present Vit Plant team members for making it happen! Learn about the melter heatup process in this animation.

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  • Vit Plant Team Builds Melter Operations Muscle

    Operations and commissioning team members from the Vit Plant enhanced their knowledge of melters during a recent visit to the Vitreous State Laboratory (VSL) at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

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The Vit Plant

The Solution to Treating Hanford's Nuclear WasteLearn More
The Solution to Treating Hanford's Nuclear Waste
The Hanford Vit Plant is a first-of-a-kind project of immense scale and complexity. It will eliminate the environmental threat posed by 56 million gallons of nuclear waste currently stored at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
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Virtual Tour

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Tour the Hanford Vit Plant, Virtually
We invite you to virtually tour the facilities being built at the Vit Plant. Take a peek into the nuclear facilities and support structures on the 65-acre site.
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Direct Feed LAW

The Sequenced Approach to Treating Hanford's WasteLearn More
The Sequenced Approach to Treating Hanford's Waste
The Department of Energy developed a sequenced approach that would treat low-activity waste first. This approach, called direct feed low-activity waste, will begin treating waste as soon as practical to protect the Columbia River and the public.
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Our Employees

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Sarah
Systems Engineering Manager
Sarah has more than 20 years of experience in the nuclear industry, including eight years working as a nuclear reactor operator. She worked at both a Department of Energy test reactor and an operating nuclear power plant.
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Hanford Vit Plant Overview
Take a tour inside the massive, first-of-a-kind Waste Treatment Plant, also known as the Vit Plant, under construction at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state. The...
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