youtube algorithm sent me here, nice to meet you Micheal!

Salute to the entire team! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I spent 3 1/2 years helping to build those melters, it's really cool to finally see them working.

Sick video!

what are we looking at here?

Can you tell the name of this background music?

Awesome video! Very educational!

The main VIT processing facility looks unchanged since 2009

More updates please!

Great job Ryan on how important communication is and how one really needs to clearly articulate their requirements!!

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Wow it's huge

Thanks for this information. Keep the videos coming. The more the public knows, the better.

Interesting but where does the low level waste get mixed with the molten glass ?

Awesome visuals and 3D modeling. Thank you for sharing!

Show more of these videos. The public has to know about this more often.

What a stud lol

Ahhh so that's how you move those milk cans around.

Oh man you scratched up all that paint.

Good evening there, what apocryphal bullshit this summarily amounts to!! Get a literal grip on this for Christs Sake, this is in reaffirmation pure bullshit in turn.

Good evening there, what an ensuing and mutually terrible endeavor to this construct a contemporary nuclear grade waste treatment facility!!

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I built those windows

미안하다

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I spent 3 years building those. That was one of the best jobs I ever worked on. I'm hoping the company I work for it gets to build some more.

So happy you guys are finally getting those things put together. I hope you're able to post a video of it running when it starts up in the next 6 years.

About damn time you guys put those melters together I spent almost five years building those damn things for you. LOL looking great guys keep it up.

In summation, it has to be openly advocated that the aggregate and cumulative progress exhibited on this most momentous Nuclear-Grade Facility, has been and presently is, by contemporary standards, ABSOLUTELY MISERABLE, unequivocally so!! The voluntary attrition rate on this project in years past has been UNPRECEDENTED; in reaffirmation, the overall ratio of Design as opposed to actual Construction, is HIDEOUS, in addition! In a typical Nuclear-Grade Facility such as this, no matter whether it resides within either the respective categories of Commercial / Civil Construction, or else in this instance, Federal / Government Construction, engineering should ALWAYS characteristically be at a 90 Percent or greater rate of completion, before initial full Construction is even allowed to commence, from the initial outset! This Project, by tradition, has not only violated this most sacred tradition held within the Nuclear Industry, the Primary Contractor on this momentous endeavor, Bechtel National Inc., has blatantly ignored manifold legitimate Safety Concerns raised over the preceding several years' time before now, and has inevitably pushed ahead, ARROGANTLY, with Full Construction, A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, on their part, undeniably so. The culmination of this erroneous decision on the part of the Management on this Project, has been NUMEROUS MASSIVE EMPLOYMENT LAYOFFS, numbering literally in the THOUSANDS over the intervening years between Ground break, till the present, here in 2015. The two most substantive physical Constructs on this Project, those of the Pre-Treatment and the adjoining High Level Waste Buildings, has been literally slowed down by YEARS, as a direct result of TERRIBLE decision making, on this again most significant undertaking at the Hanford Nuclear Site. The consistent, irrefutable pattern exhibited by Bechtel here has been literally, DELAY, DELAY, DELAY, in a repetitive capacity, that demonstrates their vast inadequacy of resident Engineering knowledge and Design capability, both of which have only served to inevitably prolong the already AGONIZINGLY SLOW rate of Construction on this entire Project. In summation, the approach / modality of concurrent Design / Build on an endeavor this complex and intricate, has been nothing short of DISASTROUS. Projected date for Startup and Commissioning on major Physical components of this project, IS NOW STIPULATED FOR 2032, NOT 2007, AS ORIGINALLY PROMISED. This is a massive lesson in POOR Management, and precisely how NOT to approach a project of this magnitude!

Bechtel National, Inc., provided a $15,000 gift to the MESA program of Yakima Valley/Tri-Cities in support of MESA Day. Several Vit Plant workers also volunteered as judges.

RICHLAND, Wash. - Completing the steam plant and placement of structural steel in the main portion of the High-Level Waste Vitrification Facility were just two of the major construction accomplishments this year at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, or Vit Plant, managed by Bechtel National Inc. “I’m especially pleased to see the continued improvement in employees’ attention to safety, while completing a number of high-profile activities,” said Bechtel’s Vit Plant Project Director Peggy McCullough. “That contributed to Vit Plant workers achieving the best safety performance in project history with fewer injuries this year than ever before.” Chief among the construction accomplishments were meeting a milestone for placement of the structural steel to the 37-foot level at the High-Level Waste Vitrification Facility and completing construction of the steam plant. “Construction is in full-swing in most areas of the plant, including areas of HLW not impacted by technical decisions,” said Manager of Construction Steve Overton. “The structural steel milestone was met early in the year at HLW, and we continued steel placement to the 77-foot-level,” Overton said. The steam plant is part of the Balance of Facilities at the Vit Plant. There are 20 facilities or systems that comprise the infrastructure necessary to support the four main Vit Plant facilities. “In addition, we completed a substantial amount of work at the Analytical Laboratory, which puts us in a good position to complete construction of the Lab in 2014,” said Overton. For more information, visit www.hanfordvitplant.com.