Bechtel National has made its second batch of test glass at the Department of Energy’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the company said in various social media posts.
“Our team poured molten clean test glass into a container from Melter 2 for the first time,” Bechtel said in a May 23 Hanford Vit Plant Facebook post. “Next up: our operators will continue making incremental pours to build their proficiency over the next few months.” A similar post was made on LinkedIn by Bechtel National President Dena Volovar.
Bechtel recently brought the second melter online. DOE and Bechtel, the plant construction contractor, to start making glass from the less radioactive tank waste at Hanford in 2025.
Regulators for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina agree that cleanup crews have successfully removed radioactive waste from Tank 10 and can continue to close out that tank, DOE said this week.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officially concurred May 23 with the DOE Office of Environmental Management that Tank 10 has been emptied, according to a DOE press release. The signoff is a big liquid waste milestone for BWX Technologies-led Savannah River Mission Completion, according to the release.
The tank will now undergo sampling and analysis, according to the release. So far, eight of the 51 tanks at Savannah River have been closed and the remaining 43 should be finished by 2037, according to the Environmental Management office.
Idaho-based North Wind Group said Tuesday it appointed Paul Adams president of its North Wind Services company.
Adams, who started his role as president on Tuesday, will lead business development and strategic initiatives, North Wind said in a Tuesday press release.
Adams is a Marine Corps veteran with more than 25 years of commercial and government project management, according to the press release. The release did not say where Adams worked previously. North Wind Services does work including radioactive and hazardous waste management as well as environmental investigation and restoration, construction, and demolition.
