351 Substation Demolition -- B Roll

RICHLAND, Wash. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently teamed with contractor Washington Closure Hanford to complete a major recycling effort during cleanup of the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State. The work involved removing an electrical substation in the 300 Area, a former industrial complex about a mile north of the city of Richland that was the center of Hanford’s radiological research and nuclear fuel fabrication facilities for nearly 60 years.
Cleanup of the 300 Area is part of the River Corridor Closure Project. The River Corridor is a 220-square-mile section of the Site that borders the Columbia River and is DOE’s largest environmental closure project.
To complete the recycling effort, Washington Closure worked with a small business, Transformers Technologies of Salem, Ore., on a “materials for service contract.” The contract allowed Transformer Technologies to keep the recovered material – copper, steel and oil – as payment. A local company, Lampson Crane of Kennewick, Wash., performed the rigging and lifting activities.
This is the third electrical substation recycled and removed on the River Corridor in 2014. The electrical substations in the B and D reactor areas were taken down in January and February, respectively.
Mark French, DOE’s Federal Project Director for the River Corridor said, “Recycling the substation material saves taxpayers $400,000. And beneficial reuse of the materials instead of disposal is good for the environment.”

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