CORRECTION

An article in the April 27 edition of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing [“Hanford TRU Waste Would Move to WIPP by 2050”] should have said crews will retrieve about 17,500 containers of waste stored underground in Hanford’s low-level burial grounds.

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A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

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 […]