Feds ramp up project sending nuke weapons waste from South Carolina to site near Carlsbad
The South Carolina facility completed its 100th downblending for fiscal year 2023, and intended to ship the waste to WIPP via truck.
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The South Carolina facility completed its 100th downblending for fiscal year 2023, and intended to ship the waste to WIPP via truck.
In total, about 34 metric tons of surplus plutonium was planned to diluted and disposed of at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad.
Dec 21, 2020 In this file photo, a truck carries nuclear-waste shipping containers to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in the southeastern corner of New Mexico. Submitted photo The Department of Energyâs weapons-and-nonproliferation arm will soon review the possible environmental consequences of so-called dilute-and-dispose, the alternative to the mothballed Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility. In a notice published Wednesday morning, the National Nuclear Security Administration announced its intent to produce an environmental impact statement for the Sur...