Transuranic Waste

SRS Moving Closer to First Shipments of Downblended Plutonium to WIPP

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The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina should be ready to start shipping certain transuranic waste from downblended plutonium to its underground disposal site in New Mexico by the end of the summer, an agency official told the Savannah…

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