Transuranic Waste

New WIPP ventilation system to switch on by 2026 

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PHOENIX — The top manager for the Bechtel affiliate now in charge of the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico expects a new underground ventilation system to be operating by late 2025 or early 2026.
Ken Harrawood, president and program…

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Nuclear cleanup boss White talks IWTU startup, other milestones, at Waste Management

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DOE targeting return to pre-2014 WIPP shipment levels

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Paducah landlord contract ‘unique,’ DOE manager says, stay tuned for final decision

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UCOR boss touts progress on taking down aging structures at Y-12, Oak Ridge Lab

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Winning backing for Oak Ridge landfill was tough, House appropriator tells conference

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Close cooperation between DOE, contractors helped Hanford ride out wind storm

Rows of yellow barrels marked with radioactive warning labels stored in an industrial warehouse.

DOE reups EnergySolutions, Waste Control Specialists for low-level, other waste

Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.

Wrap Up: West Valley intertwined with Cold War; N3B pipe digging to resume; Hanford employee douses small fire

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