September 13, 2016
Washington River Protection Solutions is committed to providing its employees and the public timely information about vapors at Hanford’s tank farms. Read the second installment in a series of weekly updates by clicking here.
September 8, 2016
The Area/Stack Autosampler performs continuous whole-air and sorbent-media sampling. Read more about it here.
September 6, 2016
Through collaboration and teamwork, I’m pleased to announce that WRPS and the Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council (HAMTC) have reached a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to lift the Stop Work order requiring the use of supplied-air respiratory protection inside tank farm fences, based on WRPS’ […]
September 6, 2016
Washington River Protection Solutions is committed to providing its employees and the public timely information about vapors at Hanford’s tank farms. With this in mind, a weekly recap on the activities and events about Hanford tank farm vapors will be posted on this website. Click […]
August 30, 2016
More data from the mobile lab has been posted. Each map shows the route taken (in red), stops where stationary monitoring took place (red with blue circle), and the data that was collected (yellow star). WRPS will continue to analyze the data and modify the […]
August 30, 2016
The Proton Transfer Reaction – Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry mobile laboratory system being tested at Hanford’s tank farms provides real-time vapor analysis. Read more about the technology here.
August 25, 2016
The Gastronics Fixed Instrument Skid is one of the Direct-Reading Instruments being tested at Hanford’s tank farms. It provides real-time gas measurements for ammonia, volatile organic compounds and nitrous oxide. Read more about the technology here.
August 23, 2016
The CUB Personal VOC Monitor is one of the Direct-Reading Instruments (DRI) being tested at Hanford’s tank farms that provides real-time volatile organic compounds measurements. Read more about the technology here. Watch a video here.