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Cleanup at major N Reactor facility finished

04.26.2011

Washington Closure Hanford recently completed placing the Hanford N Reactor Heat Exchanger Facility in interim safe storage. In addition, work crews also reached the half-way mark, by volume, in cleaning up a total of 140 waste sites at N Area. Yet to do by the 2012 deadline is placing the N Reactor building in interim safe storage and remediating the remaining waste sites.

The River Corridor Closure Project is the nation’s largest environmental cleanup and closure project. To learn more about cleanup activities underway at N Area, view the fact sheets and historical photos below.

Fact sheets

·         N Reactor Timeline

·         Cocooning Complete at N Reactor Heat Exchanger Facility

·         N Reactor Progress

·         Waste Site Cleanup at Hanford’s N Area

Historical construction photos