Latest Hanford Site Stories
PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Steve Hafner has been named Chief Operating Officer of DOE Operations for G4S Government Solutions, Inc. (G4S GS) and Dave Bradley has been promoted to SVP and Executive General Manager. The team will specifically help bridge new practices and protocols in the company's DOE/NNSA operations. In this new role, Hafner will oversee all of the company's DOE operations and will have primary focus on DOE Oak Ridge Operations, Strategic...
Radiation safety and worker protection firm Dade Moeller announces its expanded role at the Hanford nuclear site, providing technical direction and operation of the radiation dosimetry program components of the site’s radiological site services (RSS) Richland, WA (PRWEB) October 08, 2012 Radiation safety and worker protection firm Dade Moeller announces its expanded role at the Hanford nuclear site, providing technical direction and operation of the radiation dosimetry program...
A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Sandia researchers had worked around the clock following the March 2011 disaster to show the technology worked in seawater, which was pumped in to cool the plant's towers. "It's the kind of thing that sends a chill," said Mark Rigali, manager of the geochemistry group at Sandia. "We've...
Dade Moeller announces that Wayne M. Glines has joined the Company as Senior Health Physicist. Glines adds more than 32 years of Federal health physics expertise to Dade Moeller’s well-known depth in this technical field and becomes the Company’s 37th Certified Health Physicist. Richland, WA (PRWEB) January 11, 2012 Nationally recognized health physics [radiation protection] firm Dade Moeller announces that Wayne M. Glines has joined the Company as Senior Health Physicist. Glines adds...
U.S. Department of Energy contractors Dade Moeller and EnergX announce their new partnership, aimed at meeting the demand for high-quality industrial hygiene and occupational safety training across the country. The collaboration promotes seven courses offered at shared facilities in Oak Ridge, TN; Gaithersburg, MD; Las Vegas, NV; and Richland, WA. Richland, WA (PRWEB) November 29, 2011 U.S. Department of Energy contractors Dade Moeller and EnergX announce their new partnership, aimed at...
Boston-area water jet contractor AK Services cut a 55-inch access hole into a nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site in Washington. The hole is the largest-ever access cut into an active Department of Energy radioactive waste storage tank. It was cut to accommodate a robotic retrieval system that will remove the waste for safer storage. RICHLAND, Washington (Vocus/PRWEB) February 14, 2011 Waterjet contractor AK Services made history recently by cutting the largest-ever access...
Members of the engineering faculty at Oregon State University have invented a new type of radiation detection and measurement device that will be particularly useful for cleanup of sites with radioactive contamination, making the process faster, more accurate and less expensive.A patent has been granted on this new type of radiation spectrometer, and the first production of devices will begin soon. The advance has also led to creation of a Corvallis-based spinoff company, Avicenna...
Details about how uranium and plutonium move around underground suggest ways to stop themResearchers from around the world will be presenting at Migration '09: 12th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behavior of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere. The meeting is being held near one of the pioneer locations of nuclear technology, the Hanford Site .Migration '09 will focus on recent developments in the fundamental chemistry of radioactive elements known as...
RICHLAND, Wash., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following are the prepared remarks of John C. Cruden, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division: This is a historic settlement. I am here on behalf of Attorney General Eric Holder who has said the following to mark this occasion: "I am pleased the parties have come together after years of effort to reach these important agreements that set Washington state, Oregon and the federal government on a...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- John C. Cruden, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, will tour the Waste Treatment Plant at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State on TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009 at 9:00 A.M. PT (12:00 P.M. ET). Following the tour, Acting Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden, Governor Gregoire and Secretary Chu, along with state and federal officials, will hold a joint press briefing at the site....
