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Hanford safety report ‘inapplicable’ for mass-exceeding waste box, DNFSB report says

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The DOE Hanford Site did not meet a technical safety requirement regarding the fissile mass of a waste box, according to a Feb. 28 report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.
Personnel at the site discovered the waste box with a fissile mass value exceeding…

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