Field Remediation | Projects
The Field Remediation Project is responsible for safely cleaning up 366 waste sites and burial grounds located within the Hanford Site’s River Corridor.
This includes liquid waste disposal cribs and trenches, buried pipelines and areas contaminated by operational leaks and accidental spills. Buried materials includes chemically and radioactively contaminated materials.
It includes materials such as reactor hardware, spent nuclear fuel, research and development wastes, byproducts from the manufacture of nuclear fuel, hazardous materials, such as asbestos, lead, chromium, carbon tetrachloride and radioactive strontium, uranium, cesium and tritium.
The cleanup process involves:
- Sampling and analyzing sites to determine the extent and type of radioactively and chemically contaminated materials
- Excavating radioactively and chemically contaminated waste materials and transporting them to the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility for disposal
- Restoring the landscape through site backfill, grading and revegetation
Information available about specific waste site cleanup activities:
- 118-K-1 Burial Ground
- 618-1 Burial Ground
- 618-7 Burial Ground (completed in 2009)
- 618-10 Burial Ground
- N Area