AVANTech, which works at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, has named a veteran of nuclear waste cleanup as its senior process engineer for the Hanford Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) Project.
The Columbia, S.C.-based water treatment provider, a subcontractor to Hanford waste storage tank farm manager Washington River Protection Solutions, said Thursday that Robert Wilson will also be involved in other AVANTech wastewater treatment projects.
Wilson has more than 20 years of experience doing legacy nuclear waste work at sites such as Fernald in Ohio, Hanford, Rocky Flats in Colorado, and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. He has expertise in process and chemical engineering, as well as compliance with environmental regulations.
Wilson will work out of a former Mid Columbia Engineering (MCE) office Richland, Wash. Mid Columbia is now an AVANTech division after a July buyout for an undisclosed price.
AVANTech recently received a WRPS subcontract, for an undisclosed sum, to design and construct a pretreatment facility for tank wastes at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) being built at Hanford. The cesium removal demonstration project is meant to remove both cesium and solid materials from tank waste.
Washington River Protection Solutions manages 177 underground tanks at Hanford holding 56 million gallons of high-level and low-activity radioactive waste. The waste is left over from plutonium production for the U.S. nuclear defense.
