The new BWX Technologies-led contractor that will oversee tank waste at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state expects to start making job offers to incumbent employees Jan. 6, the joint venture said recently.
Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure (H2C) expects to start extending employment offers to workers now employed by Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions Jan. 6 and be nearly done by Jan. 31. That is according to a Dec. 11 transition memo posted on the H2C website.
“Most employees will be offered the same positions at the same pay rate,” according to the transition memo on the H2C website. H2C is asking prospective employees to respond to the job offers within five days and fill out a new employment eligibility verification form from the Department of Homeland Security.
H2C consists of BWXT, Amentum and Fluor. It received its 120-day notice to proceed in October after staving off legal challenges in federal court by an Atkins-led joint venture.
In addition to managing the roughly 56 million gallons of radioactive and chemical waste, leftover from decades of plutonium production, the contract also calls for H2C to eventually take over operation of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Treatment Plant built by Bechtel. That plant is supposed to start vitrifying some of the lower-level radioactive waste in a solid glass form by August. 2025.
