RICHLAND, Wash. - A second slate of 12 laboratory technicians recently started work at the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site. They join the first class hired in January and will work with chemists, such as Lab Ops Dayshift Supervisor Amber Hoggard, shown here, to analyze the approximately 3,000 samples of tank waste that will come to the Analytical Laboratory each year supporting Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) operations. DFLAW is a system of interdependent projects and infrastructure improvements, managed and highly integrated as a program, that must operate together to vitrify, or immobilize within glass, Hanford tank waste. Samples will be characterized by the laboratory team throughout the vitrification process to confirm the WTP is producing glass that meets regulatory requirements.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Environmental Management
