Radioactive Waste 814 - Bechtel Making Progress On Completing The Vitrification Plant At Hanford - Part 1 of 3 Parts

Part 1 of 3 Parts
     The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has announced that tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) has finished construction of a pipeline that will transfer waste from Hanford’s buried waste tanks to the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) for vitrification, also known as immobilization in glass.

Nuclear Reactors 939 - China Begins Loading Fuel In A Demonstration High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Plant

     The National Nuclear Safety Administration of China issued an operating license on August 20th for the demonstration high-temperature gas-cooled reactor plant (HTR-PM) at Shidaowan in the Shandong province of China. The next day, workers began loading the first spherical fuel elements into the first reactor at the plant.

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