The U.S. Department of Energy announced the safe and successful heat up of the Vit Plant's second melter. This achievement marks a significant milestone in the Department’s ongoing effort to address chemical and radioactive waste stored in underground tanks at the Hanford Site. 

Thank you to our 2024 Vit Plant 4 Val Polar Plunge team for jumping into the Columbia River after raising more than $30,000 for Special Olympics! Thank you to all those who donated in honor of our former Project Director, Val McCain, who we lost last year and who was a Special Olympics champion.

Watch as the Hanford Vit Plant team transferred the first container filled with molten test glass from the Low-Activity Waste Facility's finishing line to be lidded.

The Vit Plant team hosted a media event to celebrate the first container filled with test glass poured from Melter 1!  Attendees signed their names on the container and celebrated the indelible mark they have left on Hanford history.

Vit Plant crews made the first pour of melted test glass into a container – a huge step toward treating radioactive tank waste at Hanford. This video shows the melter pour stream camera showing the first molten stream pouring into a container.