Small Business Vendor Forum

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Small Business Vendor Forum

• Greg Jones
• Chief Financial Officer
• Department of Energy
• Richland Operations Office and
• Office of River ProtectionApril 29, 2009

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Hanford Site Map
586 square miles
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Hanford Site History

• Plutonium production complex constructed in WWII
  (Manhattan Project) and expanded during the Cold
  War
• Produced approx. two-thirds of nations supply of
  plutonium from 1944-1989
• Peak employment was during initial site
  construction (approx. 50,000)
• Current employment is approx. 10,000

Hanfords B Reactor (top) and worker holding
plutonium metal product
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Hanford Cleanup Priorities Richland Operations

• Demolishing facilities and cleaning up waste
  sites near the Columbia River and across the
  Hanford Site
• Stabilizing and preparing nuclear materials for
  shipment off the site
• Cleaning up and monitoring contaminated
  groundwater
• Packaging, shipping, and disposing of radioactive
  waste
• Keeping the site safe and secure

Removing contaminated soil and demolishing
facilities near the Columbia River
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Hanford Cleanup Priorities River Protection

• Retrieving waste from large underground tanks
• Upgrading and building new infrastructure and
  support facilities to transfer tank waste to a
  treatment facility
• Building the Waste Treatment Plant to treat
  underground tank waste

Upgrading tank farm systems (top) and aerial of
Waste Treatment Plant under construction (botttom)
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Strategy for Cleanup 2015 Vision

• Shrink active area of cleanup to 75 square miles
  by 2015
• Provides more near-term focus on finishing
  cleanup along Columbia River
• Reduces annual infrastructure costs
• At completion, will shift full-scale cleanup
  resources to center of Hanford
• Still plenty of cleanup work to do in central
  Hanford after 2015

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Budget Profile
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Recovery Act Funding

• Focus of 1.96 billion in Recovery Act funds for
  Hanford
• Create/save jobs
• Reduce the footprint of the Site
• Reduce lifecycle costs
• Projects identified will focus on accelerating
  cleanup of soil and groundwater, transportation
  and disposal of waste, cleanout and demolition of
  former weapons complex facilities, and building
  infrastructure to support tank waste treatment

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Recovery Act Funding - Richland Operations
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Recovery Act Funding - River Protection
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Where Were Headed

• By 2015
• Complete cleanup along the Columbia River
• Shrink active cleanup area to 75 square miles or
  less
• By 2019
• Finish building the plant to treat underground
  tank waste
• Continuing
• Emptying underground tanks
• Demolishing facilities
• Treating contaminated groundwater
• Protecting the Columbia River
• More Information
• www.hanford.gov

Central Plateau
Hanford Site Boundary (586 sq. miles)