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Karthik Subramaniam

Karthik Subramaniam

Chief Engineer and Innovation Director at Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure (H2C), leading nuclear waste cleanup operations

Jul 16, 2026

3:42
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?
3:49
Yeah, absolutely.
3:50
So the Hanford site, uh, and I use this as an analogy, it is a matter of scale.
3:54
So the Hanford site itself is 586 square miles.
3:58
That is about the size of London, and so it's an enormous operation.
4:02
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.
4:19
And so out of that came a, a large amount of chemical and radioactive waste.

20 MINS LATER

24:24
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?

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