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Gallery: Removing Pencil Tanks
Title: Historic Photo Pencil Tanks
Historic Photo Pencil Tanks
Name: Historic Photo Pencil Tanks
Document Date: 03/01/2012
Keywords: cleanup, contamination, pencil tank, plutonium, plutonium finishing plant
Official Building Numbers: Z Plant
Area: 200 West
Description:
This photo of pencil tanks was taken during construction of the facility that houses the tanks. Crews with contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company are removing long, thin tanks - called "pencil" tanks - from the highest-hazard facility at Hanford, the Plutonium Finishing Plant.
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