LANL Dialing Up Wildfire Protection for Problematic Nitrate Salt Waste

The Energy Department is creeping closer to implementing new safeguards that will allow the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Area G transuranic waste processing facility to resume full operations and continue treatment of the problematic waste stream that…

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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 […]