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Section 3125 of the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) calls for a national labs team to develop a framework of decisions to be made among the supplemental treatment technologies, waste forms, and disposal locations for low-activity waste in the Hanford tanks. In addition, Section 3125 requests additional analysis for the grout treatment approach as identified in the previous report for Section 3134 of the FY 2017 NDAA. As in the previous study, the Academies will convene a committee of experts to provide a concurrent review of the national labs team's continuing draft and final analytic frameworks.
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Review of the Continued Analysis of Supplemental Treatment Approaches of Low-Activity Waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation: Review #3
Consensus Study Report
·2023
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington produced about two-thirds of the nations plutonium for nuclear weapons from 1944 until the last reactor was shut down in 1987. The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) manages the ongoing clean-up at Hanfor...
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