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Aug 27, 2020Demolition Continues at Hanford's Plutonium Finishing Plant . JULY 9, 2019 High School Students Get Real World Experience With Hanford Site Mentors. JUNE 11, 2019 Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant Demolition Making Significant Progress . JUNE 1, 2019 Polestar selected for mentor-protg program. MAY 28, 2019 Get price

EPA Superfund Record of Decision

The Hanford Site was divided and listed as four NPL sites: the 1100 Area, the 200 Area, the 300 Area, and the 100 Area. The 1100 Area ROD, issued in September 1993, specifies that the waste generated during remediation will be disposed of offsite. Restoration of the CERCLA past-practice sites at the Hanford Site is expected to result in the Get price

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Summary of the HANFORD SITE

HANFORD SITE B Reactor was operated at the Hanford Site for the first time in September 1944. The Hanford Site was established in 1943 to produce plutonium for some of the nuclear weapons tested and used in World War II. Hanford was the first plutonium-production facility in the world. The site was selected Get price

EEOICPA CIRCULAR NO. 15

This is the fourth SEC class for workers at the Hanford site. Prior classes were the subject of EEOICPA Bulletin Nos. 08-03, 08-33 and 10-04 as well as EEOICPA Circular No. 12-16. Prior guidance pertaining to the Hanford site covers employees who worked at that site from October 1, Get price

Civilian Displacement: Hanford, WA

Jul 21, 2017In January 1943, the remote Hanford site in eastern Washington State was selected for the Manhattan Project's top-secret site for plutonium production. The site occupied approximately 580,000 acres with some fifty miles of the Columbia River flowing through the high desert steppe. Get price

HANFORD NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT

The Trustees have selected these studies and produced this document as part of their duties in connection with the ongoing Hanford natural resource damage assessment Since 1943, activities on the Hanford Site in south-central Washington have resulted in the widespread release of a large volume of radiological and other hazardous contami- Get price

RECORD OF DECISION (RODS)

Hanford Site Benton County, Washington STATEMENT OF BASIS AND PURPOSE This decision document presents the selected interim remedial actions for a portion of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford 100 Area, Hanford Site, Benton County, Washington. These actions were chosen in Get price

Purposive Sampling Definition and Types

Mar 19, 2020A purposive sample is a non-probability sample that is selected based on characteristics of a population and the objective of the study. Purposive sampling is different from convenience sampling and is also known as judgmental, selective, or subjective sampling. Get price

State of Oregon: Safety Resilience

New reactors and processing facilities were added at Hanford throughout the Cold War. In each case, more underground storage tanks were built. By 1964, Hanford had 149 single-shell tanks, divided among 12 tank farms. The earliest tanks held between 55,000 to 530,000 gallons of liquid. Newer tanks ranged from 758,000 to one million gallons. Get price

On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford

Jul 01, 2007On the Home Front is the only comprehensive history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most productive and wasteful plutonium manufacturing facility. Located in southeastern Washington State, the Hanford Site produced the plutonium used in Get price

Projects

In 2008, Washington Closure Hanford publically released two reports of mollusk observations for the 100/300 Area and inter-areas of the Hanford Site as part of a risk assessment report: Inter-Areas Component of the River Corridor Baseline Risk Assessment Sampling Summary, Washington Closure Hanford, WCH-274, Rev. 0., Appendix F, Mollusk Get price

Site Management Operation

In 1943, the Hanford Site was selected to produce plutonium for the top secret Manhattan Project, and began 75 years of innovation, discovery and leadership. To honor this legacy and the continued work at Hanford, Leidos recently presented a special event entitled "EVOLUTION OF THE SECRET CITY: A Fireside Chat About the Hanford Story". Get price

Hanford Overview

An overview of the Hanford Site's history, largely from the 1940s to the late 1980s. The site today. Since the signing of the Tri-Party Agreement in 1989 between our agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), we work with the EPA to ensure Energy — Hanford's owner and manager — follows environmental laws and meets cleanup deadlines stipulated Get price

Hanford and the river

The 586‐square‐mile Hanford site is a legacy of World War II and the Cold War. In 1943, the federal government selected Hanford as a top‐secret site for the Manhattan Project, which called for en‐ riching plutonium for nuclear weapons. Located in a sparsely pop‐ Get price

Groundwater contaminant plume maps and volumes, 100

This study is based on previously existing chemical (or radionuclide) sampling and analysis data downloaded from publicly available Hanford Site Internet sources, geostatistically selected and interpreted as representative of current (from 2009 through part of 2012) but average conditions for groundwater contamination in the study area. Get price

Discussion of Hanford Systems Engineering and Principal

The Hanford Site Systems Engineering Implementing Directive provides a broad systems-level view of the Hanford site-wide remediation problem . It includes the concepts of both initial and desired end states of the site, trade studies (alternative solutions), and definition of the overall system architecture. Get price

NWS radar image from San Joaquin Valley, CA

Range and Bearing Information (left click to select a location): How does this work? Distance from Radar, Lat/Lon of selected location: Distance from Selected Location: Latitude Longitude . National Radar Mosaic Sectors (click image) National Weather Service, NOAA 1325 East-West Highway Get price

Hanford Site Issues

As set forth in its charter, the primary mission of the Board is to provide informed recommendations and advice to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) on selected major policy issues related to the cleanup of the Hanford site. Benton County's Get price

EMI SIG Public Webpage

"Firefighting crews were challenged with heavy fuels due to the location, difficult-to-access locations, and changing weather conditions such as strong winds and increasing temperatures, said Adam Moldovan, acting fire chief of the Hanford Fire Department. Lightning also caused several other small fires across the 580-square-mile site. Get price

DOE Selects Mission Support Alliance, LLC for Mission

Sep 03, 2008WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the Mission Support Alliance, LLC has been selected as the mission support contractor for DOE's Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State. The contract is a cost-plus award-fee contract valued at approximately $3.0 billion over ten years (a five-year base period with options to extend it for up to Get price

Ecotoxicity literature review of selected Hanford Site

article{osti_10136486, title = {Ecotoxicity literature review of selected Hanford Site contaminants}, author = {Driver, C J}, abstractNote = {Available information on the toxicity, food chain transport, and bioconcentration of several Hanford Site contaminants were reviewed. The contaminants included cesium-137, cobalt-60, europium, nitrate, plutonium, strontium-90, technetium, tritium Get price

Native Americans and the Manhattan Project

Jun 28, 2016Today artifacts associated with the campsites or burial grounds can be found on the Hanford site. On January 13, 1943, General Leslie Groves officially selected the Hanford area as the Manhattan Project's plutonium production site. Local residents were given ninety days to relocate. Get price

Summary of the HANFORD SITE

Hanford Site Cleanup The site was selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers because of its remoteness and because it had abundant electrical power from Grand Coulee Dam, a func- tional railroad, clean water from the Columbia River, and available sand and gravel for construction. During the next 21 years, nine plutonium-production Get price

Hanford Soil Inventory Model (SIM) Rev. 1 Users Guide

To estimate mass balanced contaminant inventories and their uncertainties for the Hanford Site post-closure setting, a stochastic simulation method (a Monte Carlo-type calculation) was selected to provide estimates of inventory and uncertainty. The Open Crystal Ball (OCB) statistical package was selected in 2002 for application in this model. Get price