CH2M HILL recently supported DOE’s effort to remove special nuclear material containing plutonium out of the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP). From 1949-1989, PFP produced plutonium oxides and metals. Hanford produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the country’s nuclear weapons program. With the last of that material removed in November 2009, work at PFP is focused on decontaminating and decommissioning hundreds of pieces of equipment and preparing the PFP complex for demolition by 2016.
In April 2012, CH2M HILL completed demolition of the PFP vault complex that included approximately 20,000 square feet of facilities. Read more . . .
Glove box loaded into container for disposal
Lifting a laboratory hood
Loading decontamination supplies into a glove box
Loading laboratory hoods for disposal
Glove box removed from room 146
Preparing multi-level glove box for removal
Enlarging an opening into room 146
Testing a glove box containment
Removing a temporary containment for glove box isolation
Waste shipped from PFP
Suiting up for entry
PFP vehicle barrier removal (March 2010)
Removing waste from PFP (March 2010)
Equiment size reduction in glovebox HA-28
Suiting up for entry at PFP (May 2010)
Installation of a glove box panel
PFP 2701-Z access control facility before demolition
Electrical isolation of PFP access control structures
Demolition of the PFP vehicle inspection tent
Demolition of the PFP Operationsl Control Facility
Preparing for D&D at PFP
PFP Operations control facility closed for D&D
PFP fuel storage vault lift
ISVs shipped from PFP
PFP 2701Z access control facility before demolition
PFP 2701-Z building after demolition
PFP 242-Z building containment
Chiller installed at PFP
Loading glove boxes on a pallet jack
PFP containment for process vacuum system removal
Size reducing PFP process vacuum system piping 2-4-11
Removing contaminated piping from PFP
Last glovebox removed from PFP vault complex
Labeling section of piping from PFP
Loading a PFP glovebox for shipment
Removing glovebox HA-19-B2 from PFP
Removing a section of a 70-foot-long glovebox
Glovebox 179-4 loaded for shipment
PFP Emergency Preparedness drill
PFP isolated steam line
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