History of Hanford Site Defense Production (Brief)
This paper acquaints the audience with the history of the Hanford Site, America's first full-scale defense plutonium production site. The paper includes the founding and basic operating history of the Hanford Site, including World War II construction and operations, three major postwar expansions (1947-55), the peak years of production (1956-63), production phase downs (1964-the present), a brief production spurt from 1984-86, the end of the Cold War, and the beginning of the waste cleanup mission. The paper also delineates historical waste practices and policies as they changed over the years at the Hanford Site, past efforts to chemically treat, ''fractionate,'' and/or immobilize Hanford's wastes, and resulting major waste legacies that remain today. This paper presents original, primary-source research into the waste history of the Hanford Site. Finally, the paper places the current Hanford Site waste remediation endeavors in the broad context of American and world history.
- Research Organization:
- Fluor Hanford, Richland, WA (United States); Hanford Site (HNF), Richland, WA (United States); Albany Research Center (ARC), Albany, OR (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-96RL13200
- OSTI ID:
- 805998
- Report Number(s):
- HNF-5041-FP, Rev.0; TRN: US0301044
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Conference title not supplied, Conference location not supplied, Conference dates not supplied; Other Information: PBD: 1 Feb 2001; Related Information: Replaced URL (broken link) with digital image (.pdf) GE Bratton 02-26-2015
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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