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Workers stand beside a large white machine with a metal pipe sticking out of it
The cleanup contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management at the Idaho National Laboratory Site recently met its fiscal year 2024 milestone of transferring 10 spent nuclear fuel baskets from first-generation vaults to second-generation storage vaults ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline.
Rotating images of the inside of an underground basin
Workers at the Hanford Site recently finished filling the last large concrete basin at the K Reactor Area with cement-like grout. The basin stored reactor fuel rods from the plutonium production mission.