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A plan to address groundwater pollution took shape at Los Alamos National Laboratory as the facility works to clean up a plume of contaminated water in the area.
Work to extract, treat and reinject the water recently entered full operation, per an announcement from The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) Los Alamos Field Office.
Three extraction wells were brought online, along with two for injection of the treated groundwater along the eastern portion of a plume of water contaminated with hexavalent chromium.
The new wells brought the project to five extraction and five injection wells.
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CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico has announced plans to replace diesel vehicles and equipment with electrical and battery-operated components as part of a larger effort to improve airflow in the underground nuclear waste repository.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is the only repository for nuclear waste disposal in the U.S. Carlsbad Nuclear Task Force Chair John Heaton said the group is working on multiple projects to enhance workforce safety, including converting all vehicles to electric. Heaton said reducing diesel equipment could also cut down on risks like fires or environmental contamination.
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The United Steelworkers (USW) Local 959 safety committee leapt into action a few years ago after discovering that more and more workers at the Goodyear plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, were exposed to knife injuries on the job.
Committee members solicited workers input on how to address the hazard and then collaborated with the company to provide cut-resistant gloves, introduce more safely designed knives and take other steps to bring the crisis under control. It was our number one injury at the plant, recalled Ronald Sessoms, Local 959 safety chairman. Now, we ve almost eliminated it.