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Hanford, Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Drilling the Z-9 Borehole
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Deep holes in the ground called 'boreholes' are drilled near nuclear waste sites at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State to characterize the extent of contamin...
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Hanford, Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Shipping Waste to WIPP
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Each year, nuclear waste from the Hanford Site is shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, known as WIPP. The waste is shipped in special containers design...
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Hanford, Stabilizing and Packaging Plutonium Material
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Between 2000 and 2004, Fluor Hanford workers at Hanford's Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) readied about 20 tons of plutonium material for disposal or storage off the Hanfor...
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Hanford, Deactivating the Plutonium Finishing Plant
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This is the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State, where two-thirds of the country's supply of plutonium was made until the l...
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Hanford, Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Vacuuming Radioactive Sludge
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This is what nuclear waste cleanup looks like to an operator vacuuming up radioactive sludge from basins that held spent nuclear fuel at the Hanford Site. The operator --st...
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Hanford, Nuclear Waste Cleanup: A Few Good Things
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Here's a quick look at how nuclear waste is being cleaned up at the Department of Energy's Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State. Hanford produced about two-thirds ...
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Hanford, Overview for Closing the K Basins
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Between 2000 and 2004, workers with Fluor Hanford took 2,300 tons of spent nuclear fuel from two water-filled basins attached to former production reactors, and put the fue...
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Hanford, Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Deactivating FFTF
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Workers removed 375 nuclear fuel assemblies from the Fast Flux Text Facility (FFTF) and placed the material in dry storage casks. The reactor was operated at the Hanford Si...
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Hanford, The Canister Storage Buildin
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The Canister Storage Building on the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State temporarily stores spent nuclear fuel in specially designed underground vertical tubes. R...
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Hanford, Demolishing the 233-S Facility
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This clip shows the open-air demolition of a facility once used to process plutonium. Workers with Fluor Hanford used special 'misting' equipment on a shear to control dust...
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