High-Level & Tank Waste

Savannah River to Triple Sludge Waste Treatment After SWPF Startup

By Photo of Staff Reports

The Savannah River Site’s Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) should produce 300 canisters of treated sludge waste per year once the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) comes online later in 2019.
That would be significantly higher than the 136 canisters…

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Tab for Environmental Liability Outpacing Nuclear Cleanup Spending, GAO Says

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Tearing Down West Valley Main Process Building Delayed Until Next Cleanup Contract

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Venture Awarded $4.8M Task Order for Test Bed Processing of Hanford Waste

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

Livermore, Sandia Labs to Make First Shipments to WIPP Since Outage

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

Hanford Cleanup Contractor Earns 80 Percent of Potential FY18 Fee

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ECA Urges Senate to Open its Purse for Waste Repository

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Savannah River Contractors Each Earn More Than 90 Percent of Fee

The interior of an industrial furnace used for melting glass at high temperatures.

Updated Hanford Vit Plant Plan Does Not Demand Environmental Impact Supplement, DOE Says

Two large concrete cooling towers standing at a nuclear plant site ahead of planned demolition.

California Criticizes DOE Environmental Study on Santa Susana

A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

Oak Ridge Waste Processing Contractor Claims 97 Percent of Fee

A ballistic missile warhead stored upright inside an underground launch silo, viewed from above.

H Canyon Roofing Repairs at Savannah River to Cost $1M

Two large concrete cooling towers standing at a nuclear plant site ahead of planned demolition.

Arkansas Experimental Reactor Vessel Arrives in Nevada for Disposal

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