High-Level & Tank Waste

Cesium pretreatment for waste solidification resumes at Hanford Site

By Photo of Wayne Barber

A contractor for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state has, after an extended outage, restarted a cesium pretreatment pilot project critical to waste solidification at the site, the DOE said this week.
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Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Wrap Up: RFP lull, see you in September; Ex-WIPP boss joins UCOR; Talks continue on ORNL vax case; Oak Ridge panel gets new members; Oscars ad touts Oppenheimer flick

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