Vapors
Events
From time to time, chemical vapors in Hanford’s waste storage tanks may enter the workers’ breathing zone.
When a worker reports an unexpected and unidentified odor in the tank farms, and reports medical symptoms potentially related to that smell, WRPS follows a prescribed set of conservative procedures to safeguard safety and health. That protocol is called Abnormal Operating Procedure 015, or AOP-015 for short.
Below please find the current list of all the items related to vapor events available on this website.
- Odors reported at SX Farm – Sept. 18, 2018
- UPDATE: Odors reported outside of AW Farm – June 21, 2018
- Odors reported outside of AW Farm – June 21, 2018
- Odors reported in 242-A pump storage room – June 18, 2018
- Access restored to SY Farm area after report of odors – Feb. 7, 2018
- Odors reported outside SY Tank Farm – Feb. 6, 2018
- Access restored to 702-AZ exhauster building – Feb. 6, 2018
- Odors reported inside 702-AZ exhauster building – Feb. 5, 2018
- Odors reported inside instrument facility Nov. 28, 2017
- Quicklinks-Vapor Event
- UPDATE: Odors reported outside TX Farm on 10/18/17
- Odors reported outside TX Farm – 10/18/17
- 2nd UPDATE: Odors reported outside Hanford’s A Tank Farm – 6/13/17
- UPDATE: Odors reported outside Hanford’s A Farm – 6/13/17
- Odors reported outside A Farm – 6/13/17
- AOP-015 Event Investigation Reports
- UPDATE: Odors reported near SX Farm – 3/30/17
- Odors reported near Hanford’s SX tank farm – March 30, 2017
- Odors reported outside of Hanford’s AZ Tank Farm – Jan. 27, 2017
- Odors reported east of Hanford’s AP Tank Farm – Jan. 26, 2017
- Vapors Events
- Odors reported – December 1, 2016
- Odors reported at AX change tent – Nov. 30, 2016
- AOP-015 Event Data
- AOP-015 procedure
- New interactive map posted – July 19, 2016