Thank you for your interest in a possible internship with Washington Closure Hanford. Our policy of equal opportunity for all employees and applicants is a fundamental part of our business. Employment with the River Corridor Cleanup Contractor is based on individual merit, qualifications and competence. All candidates are encouraged to apply for any openings for which they meet the minimum job-related qualifications.
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About Washington Closure Hanford
Washington Closure Hanford manages the River Corridor Closure (RCC)
Project for the U.S. Department of Energy. The RCC 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.
Washington Closure employs numerous subcontractors in its mission
to safely cleanup and close the Columbia River corridor, along the outer edge of the Hanford Site that
includes major portions of the Hanford Reach National Monument.
The River Corridor Cleanup Project work scope includes safely
demolishing hundreds of excess facilities, cleaning up waste sites and
burial grounds and placing deactivated plutonium production reactors
in safe storage. The work includes efforts in Hanford’s 100 Area,
where materials for nuclear reactors were created at nine plutonium
production reactors; 300 Area, where uranium was fabricated and
laboratory facilities reside; 400 Area, where facilities, except for
the Fast Flux Test Facility, will be demolished; and 600 Area, where
two complex and highly radioactive burial grounds – 618-10 and 618-11
– are located.
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 in waste sites and burial grounds
Reactor Interim Safe Storage Project – places retired
plutonium production reactors into interim safe storage
Waste Operations Project – designates, transports,
treats and disposes of waste and managing the Environmental
Restoration Disposal Facility
End State and Final Closure Project – ensures that
remediation under the RCC Project is completed to the standards of the
Tri-Party Agreement and that the land is suitable for transfer to
long-term stewardship.
The Hanford Site covers 586 square miles. It is located in Benton
County in southeastern Washington state and borders the Columbia
River.