Waste & Disposal Case Studies
Advanced Mixed Waste Processing Facility
Idaho National Lab Site, Idaho
We designed, constructed, and now operate this facility that treats transuranic and alpha waste at the Idaho National Laboratory. The treatment process will reduce the waste volume by 65 percent, allowing it to be safely stored at DOE facilities.
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
Carlsbad, New Mexico
We designed, built, and now safely operate the nation’s first major repository for nuclear waste in New Mexico. WIPP is a geological repository with surface and underground facilities for the permanent disposal of defense-related transuranic waste. We developed and now manage methods for characterizing, transporting, and disposing of waste at WIPP.
West Valley Demonstration Project
The West Valley Demonstration Project has safely solidified 600,000 gallons of high-level radioactive waste and is now decontaminating a former spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. The project is the result of a 1980 federal act that directs the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to create a high-level radioactive waste management demonstration project at the former nuclear fuel reprocessing plant.
We designed, constructed, and operated a high-level waste vitrification facility, which is now successfully shutdown. We performed the same services at the low-level waste solidification facility.
Savannah River Site
Aiken, South Carolina
We reconfigured the tritium facilities for stockpile management at this site. We now operate the largest vitrification plant in the nation. Our work at the Savannah River Site has a long track record of being the safest site in the DOE complex and one of the safest major industrial sites in the world.
Hanford Plutonium Finishing
Plant
Richland, Washington
Washington Safety Management Solutions is a key subcontractor at the Hanford Site. The DOE operated the Plutonium Finishing Plant at this site to process plutonium nitrate solutions into oxide powder for the nation's weapons production facilities from during the cold war. When the Cold War ended, the Plutonium Finishing Plant was left with a significant inventory of unstable nuclear materials. Once classified as a "troubled plant" by The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) the Hanford site has now been upgraded to a "model facility" following our selection to manage and stabilize the facility.
