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Vit Plant adds custom-built handwashing stations

May
27
,
2020
| 14:39 PM America/Los_Angeles
When faced with a challenge, the Vit Plant team finds creative ways of getting the job done. Long lead times for and shortages in commercial portable handwashing stations prompted the Distribs team to design and build its own – modeled after the RV …
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Sneeze guards installed at jobsite, Richland offices

May
22
,
2020
| 13:33 PM America/Los_Angeles
The Vit Plant team continues to guard employees from the spread of COVID-19 by making several engineered, administrative and behavior changes in the workplace. 'Sneeze guards' have been installed at more than 10 locations throughout the …
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Bechtel pledges $100,000 to Tri-Cities for COVID-19 response

May
06
,
2020
| 07:25 AM America/Los_Angeles
The Bechtel Group Foundation announced today it will donate $100,000 to the United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties for its COVID-19 Response Fund to help local nonprofits address food insecurity and mental and behavioral health impacts of the …
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Pipefitter has seen, done it all at Vit Plant jobsite

April
27
,
2020
| 08:03 AM America/Los_Angeles
Bernie Hecker, yellow hard hat perched on his head, navigates a white pickup through the middle of Vit Plant jobsite. He points to the facilities and systems he’s worked on since joining the project in 2001. “I helped install all the piping we’re …
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Operators make 'first contact' from control room

March
03
,
2020
| 14:09 PM America/Los_Angeles
Startup operators in the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Low-Activity Waste Facility (LAW) remotely connected to a crane and operated it from the control room for the first time since opening the facility’s annex last summer. …
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Bechtel awards $37.8M in contracts for specialized containers, spare vitrification melter

February
18
,
2020
| 13:28 PM America/Los_Angeles
Bechtel National, Inc., has awarded contracts valued at nearly $37.8 million to Petersen, Inc., to supply engineered stainless-steel containers and a spare melter for Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, or Vit Plant. These containers …
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