Ten-year Hanford site final award to new spinoff Amentum comes as DOE on May 14 said that much-watched $13B cleanup at site will go to BWXT-Fluor team. Analyst predicts a Jacobs bid protest.
As the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant -- more commonly referred to as the Vit Plant -- moves toward a process of turning 56 million gallons of radioactive waste into vitrified glass in 2023, the first team of chemists have already set up shop in the plant.
As 2019 turns to 2020, the construction stories that dominated the news over the past year will either carry over into the new year or give way to a new focus.
After 17-year, $17B saga, Bechtel's recast waste glassification megaproject at U.S. Hanford site readies for first startup, but unresolved issues remain.
The shoring of a waste storage tunnel at the Dept. of Energy's Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeast Washington proved successful and wraps the response to a May 2017 partial collapse of an adjoining tunnel.
