Transuranic Waste

DOE targeting return to pre-2014 WIPP shipment levels

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PHOENIX – The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico has since 2017 received only half as many transuranic waste shipments annually as it did prior to a February 2014 underground radiation leak that halted operations for three years…

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

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