AMWTP BACK IN FULL OPERATION AFTER SAFETY PAUSE

Operations have fully resumed at Idaho’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project following a safety pause instituted in response to a series of Technical Safety Requirement violations. Among the corrective actions taken during the pause, according to managing…

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SRS resumes shipping remote-handled TRU waste to WIPP

The Department of Energy has sent its first shipment of remote-handled transuranic waste since 2009 from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) using a new shipping container. Remote-handled waste is more radioactive… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]