Overview | Projects

Washington Closure Hanford manages the River Corridor Closure Project for the U.S. Department of Energy. The project team is responsible for cleaning up about 218 square miles of Columbia River corridor at the Hanford Site.

The corridor contains retired plutonium production reactors and support facilities, waste sites and burial grounds used during World War II and the Cold War that must be stabilized and maintained, or removed, to ensure worker safety and prevent potentially hazardous contaminants from entering the environment.

The RCC Project is organized around five projects to complete the work:

D4 Project – deactivates, decommissions, decontaminates and demolishes retired nuclear and support facilities

Field Remediation Project – cleans up and removes materials from waste sites and burial grounds

Waste Operations Project – transports, treats and disposes of low-level radioactive, hazardous and mixed waste and manages the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility

Environmental Protection – helps protect workers and the environment by ensuring cleanup work is performed within applicable state and federal environmental laws and guidelines.

Technology Needs - WCH executes the RCC Project by deploying technologies in the field that prove to be safe, efficient and cost-effective. Through the use of Technology Need Statements, WCH proactively communicates opportunities for the private sector and federally-funded organizations to respond with solutions to real needs.