
Karthik Subramaniam
Chief Engineer and Innovation Director at Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure (H2C), leading nuclear waste cleanup operations
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Jul 16, 2026
The US's historic Hanford site, and accelerated decommissioning
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3:42Alex HuntHOST
For those who aren't familiar, can you give a brief outline in how that has led to the huge job of work being done at the moment?

Karthik SubramaniamGUEST
So the Hanford site, uh, and I use this as an analogy, it is a matter of scale.

Karthik SubramaniamGUEST
Originally, over 40 years, the Hanford site was involved in the production of nuclear materials for weapons production, uh, including plutonium, so an amazing bit of work at Hanford that was supporting the defense industry for decades and decades through nine reactors, multiple separations facilities, storage facilities.

Karthik SubramaniamGUEST
And so out of that came a, a large amount of chemical and radioactive waste.
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Mike HortonGUEST
How can we do that more, in a more timely manner that allows we can reap those rewards sooner and get sites that are shutting down operational again for a new, for a new purpose?