OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — The first load of transuranic waste from Oak Ridge, weighing nearly 80,000 pounds, was shipped for disposal under new management, according to a Department of Energy (DOE) ...
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is a network of underground excavations at a depth of approximately 658 m (2,160 ft), in bedded salt formations near Carlsbad, New Mexico, in the southeastern ...
It is common for nuclear engineers to be concerned with the disposition of nuclear waste. After all, the United States alone currently has about 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel stored in ...
Editor's Note: The Aiken Standard published a story Saturday that said the last of the legacy transuranic waste had left the Savannah River Site. The Department of Energy said it was not the last ...
Los Alamos National Laboratory resumed shipments of transuranic waste yesterday from Technical Area 54 Area G. The shipments are part of an accelerated shipping campaign to remove 3,706 cubic meters ...
WE have recently had the opportunity of obtaining a very strong preparation of the so-called transuranic elements, which are precipitated with platinum as sulphide in acid solution, from roughly 100 ...
RECENT work on the chemistry of the heavy elements formed one main topic of a symposium, organised by the Chemistry Division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell, on behalf of the ...