Hanford News: Emptying of Hanford tanks resumes - 0 views
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Energy Net on 26 Jan 09Retrieval of radioactive waste resumed at Hanford on Thursday, as the new tank farm contractor began pumping radioactive waste from one of the nuclear reservation's oldest underground tanks. The pumping puts work "back on the road to reducing the risk posed by the waste in these aging tanks," said Bill Johnson, president of Washington River Protection Solutions, or WRPS, in a message to employees. Tank C-110, which has 126,000 gallons of sludge and other radioactive and chemical waste, could be emptied to regulatory standards by late spring.