HUIZENGA:WIPP MAINTENANCE ISSUES CONTRACTOR’S RESPONSIBILITY

Any maintenance issues at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant were the contractor’s responsibility and not due to a lack of funding, DOE cleanup chief Dave Huizenga said yesterday. A report on the Feb. 5 salt truck fire at the plant found that a lack of proper…

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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 […]