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Crews at H Canyon at the Savannah River Site remove an old transformer to make room for new equipment needed for an electrolytic dissolver.
A recent upgrade at H Canyon at the Savannah River Site (SRS) will now make it possible to process plutonium fuel removed from a Japanese research reactor, aiding the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) nonproliferation mission.
Waste retrieval from Tank AX-101, the last of four tanks to be retrieved in the Hanford Site’s AX Farm, is set to begin this fall. This in-tank photo shows the salt-based waste and the tank’s 22 air-lift circulators.
Tank by tank, batch by batch, the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) & tank operations contractor Washington River Protection (WRPS) are reducing risk to the environment by retrieving waste from the Hanford Site’s single-shell waste-storage tanks.
Kirk H. McDaniel, a subject matter expert on underground ventilation at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, has received honors from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration for advocating and promoting advanced technology research and development of the ‘Mine of the Future’ to reduce risks and improve miner safety.
A subject matter expert on underground ventilation at the nation's only deep geologic repository has been recognized by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration for his work to improve miner safety.
  The glovebox excavator method project bred new life into the prospect that buried waste could be exhumed from Pit 9 and other pits within a 97-acre landfill known as the Subsurface Disposal Area at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site.
DOE, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state of Idaho signed a record of decision to clean up a pit within a waste repository at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site using a chemical extraction process, which later proved unsuccessful.