The Savannah River National Laboratory has opened an office in Richland, Wash., to support its work at the Hanford Site.
The Department of Energy facility’s work has included leading the team of experts who produced the 2014 Hanford Tank Vapor Assessment Report and supporting the Office of River Protection plan to start treating low-activity waste at the Waste Treatment Plant as early as 2022 – before completion of construction and commissioning on parts of the facility that will handle high-level radioactive waste.
The office, at 3100 George Washington Way, will be staffed, but some workers will remain at Department of Energy or contractor offices at Hanford, using the SRNL space for safety briefings and other meetings. The office, which is near the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory campus in Richland, will complement work done at PNNL, said Jeff Griffin, SRNL associate laboratory director.
Battelle is the management and operations contractor for PNNL, while the SRNL contract is held by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, a team of Fluor Corp., Stoller Newport News Nuclear and Honeywell International.