1st Edition
Remediation of Legacy Hazardous and Nuclear Industrial Sites Perspectives from Hanford
PART I Site Assessment and Characterization
Stuart T. Arm and Hilary P. Emerson
Chapter 1 Developing a Remediation Framework
Katherine A. Muller, Courtney L. H. Bottenus, and Christian D. Johnson
Chapter 2 Stakeholder Perspectives and Environmental Remediation
Ellen Prendergast‑Kennedy
PART II Site Assessment and Characterization
Christian D. Johnson, Katherine A. Muller, and Hilary P. Emerson
Chapter 3 Characterization of a Uranium Groundwater Plume along the Columbia River
Amanda R. Lawter and Michelle M.V. Snyder
Chapter 4 Plutonium Finishing Plant Building and Subsurface
Waste Release Characterization
Calvin H. Delegard, Carolyn I. Pearce, Hilary P. Emerson, Andrea M. Hopkins, and Theodore J. Venetz
Chapter 5 Tank Waste Characterization: History, Challenges, and Successes
Emily Campbell, Carolyne Burns, and Richard Daniel
Chapter 6 Waste Tank Structural Assessment
Christopher Grant and Naveen Karri
PART III Remedy Screening, Evaluation, and Testing
Christian D. Johnson, Katherine A. Muller, and Hilary P. Emerson
Chapter 7 Soil Desiccation Treatability Testing at BC Waste Disposal Cribs
Adam R. Mangel and Christopher E. Strickland
Chapter 8 Wasteform Development and Qualification for Tank Waste
Vitrification and Disposal
Jose Marcial and Derek Dixon
Chapter 9 Plutonium Finishing Plant Demolition and Interim Subsurface Disposal Structure Stabilization
Calvin H. Delegard, Carolyn I. Pearce, Hilary P. Emerson, Andrea M. Hopkins, and Theodore J. Venetz
PART IV Remedial Action
Christian D. Johnson, Katherine A. Muller, and Hilary P. Emerson
Chapter 10 Groundwater Remediation with Pump‑and‑Treat Technology
Sarah Saslow and Christian D. Johnson
Chapter 11 Enhanced Attenuation of Uranium in the Subsurface
Amanda R. Lawter and Michelle M.V. Snyder
Chapter 12 Retrieval of Tank Waste from Storage
Matthew Fountain and Beric Wells
Chapter 13 Integrated Waste Treatment Flowsheet and Interface Management Strategy
Jennifer A. Kadinger and Courtney L. H. Bottenus
Chapter 14 Tank Waste Disposal
R. Matthew Asmussen
PART V Long‑Term Stewardship and Future Land Use
Vicky L. Freedman and Nicolas J. Huerta
Chapter 15 End State: Vision for Future Land Use at Hanford
Vicky L. Freedman and Nicolas J. Huerta
Chapter 16 Afterword
Nikolla P. Qafoku
Biography
Dr. Stuart T. Arm is a senior technical advisor who returned to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 2019 after 12 years working in industry. Dr. Arm holds a PhD and MEng in chemical engineering from Imperial College, London, and has 30 years’ experience in national laboratories and the nuclear industry in the United Kingdom and the United States. He establishes PNNL and DOE strategic plans and objectives for radiochemical process flowsheets and technologies for treating and managing radioactive waste and commercial used nuclear fuel while acknowledging emerging national and international trends. Dr. Arm employs a collaborative and leading approach to technology and flowsheet maturation and integration to establish implementation strategies with multitechnical and organizational elements.
Dr. Hilary P. Emerson’s research focuses on the fate and remediation of radionuclides with experimental testing from the laboratory to the field scale. She holds a BS in Environmental Engineering (2009) from the University of Central Florida and a PhD in Environmental Engineering and Earth Science (2014) from Clemson University. Since joining Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2019, her work has focused primarily on the development of new remediation technologies for radionuclides and techniques for monitoring remediation technologies.
