Melter Startup at Hanford Vit Plant, ‘Point of No Return,’ on Track for December

By ExchangeMonitor

By John Stang The first melter at Hanford’s first vitrification facility is scheduled to start up in December, site officials told the Hanford Advisory Board this week, teeing up the long-awaited solidification of liquified Cold War plutonium-byproducts by 2023. After…

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