FILE – Warning signs are posted on a door at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Thursday, June 2, 2022, a field trip to the facility in Richland, Washington, via Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
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A TRAC view of the remaining sites in the DOE-MS that require recovery and closure.
The tool shows what technologies are being used, where infected columns are headed, and what progress has been made. It will even show the groundwater the DOE is looking to find, as well as the concentration of contamination in the plume.
“We have some of the most complex cleanup scenarios in the world, and we know that,” Kluever said. “We’re in a position for some of the most complex technologies to deal with those most complex scenarios in the world. “
People who delete other public or personal environmental sites can simply use the map as a resource to perceive the new technologies available, he said.
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The map’s three-dimensional configuration is still available, but the DOE needs to make the map even more useful in the future, he added.
Kluever said the DOE hopes to use this same type of tool to show Hanford soil and closed tanks containing radioactive waste that are being cleaned up in the future.
“We started with groundwater because we had a lot of knowledge and it was simple to demonstrate that on a visual platform like this,” Kluever said.
The TRAC formula charges about $750,000 to start from 2018 to 2023, and up to $50,000 each year.
TRAC is available in trac. pnnl. gov.