Tag: Nuclear Waste
Energy Department awards $40 Million for waste cleanup research at nuclear sites
Core mission, cleanup of massive hazardous waste from decades of nuclear weapons research, production in 20th century WASHINGTON – US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced $40 million in awards for four new Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to support the Department of Energy environmental management and nuclear cleanup mission. The four centers […]
Energy Dept. drilling deep test borehole for nuclear waste dump
Over 40 years ago, scientists suggested the idea of disposing of nuclear weapons production waste in holes drilled miles into granite The U.S. Department of Energy has selected a Battelle Memorial Institute-led team to drill a test borehole of over 16,000 feet into a crystalline basement rock formation near Rugby, North Dakota. One of the […]
Proposed Utah depleted uranium stash questioned as decision nears
Shipments to proposed Utah depleted uranium storage site to be made by rail In a barren landscape of scrub just off a major Utah highway, a 10-foot-deep pit the size of about 75 football fields could soon house a kind of nuclear waste that grows more radioactive for 2 million years. EnergySolutions’ plan to bring up […]
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