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A 20 foot hole in the soil above a tunnel at the Hanford Nuclear Site

Tunnel collapses at Hanford nuclear waste site

May 12, 2017 rockman Comments Off

A 20 foot section of a tunnel collapsed at the PUREX facility at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington State. The PUREX facility was used to extract plutonium for weapons from spent […]

Loading contaminated soil into a truck near the Hanford Nuclear site. A former plutonium production reactor is in the background.

Hanford nuclear waste retrieval resumes with better technology (GPR)

July 1, 2010 rockman Comments Off

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) imaging of the subsurface tied to GPS mapping will allow the CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company to have a better idea of what is buried at the site before excavating for […]