AIKEN, South Carolina – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) will hold two virtual public scoping meetings on a new
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 Surplus Plutonium Disposition program, of which the Savannah River Site is a pivotal player.
Dilute-and-dispose, sometimes referred to as downblending, is a means to dispose of plutonium. The meticulous â and slow going â process involves converting the toxic material into an oxide, adulterating it, and shipping the mixture to southeastern New Mexico for entombment at the Waste Isolat