Stunning admission by SRS in receiving, processing and dumping unnecessary shipments of Canadian liquid high-level nuclear waste from Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario.
SRS mislabels the highly radioactive liquid as “Target Residue Material” to downplay that this liquid is, well, highly radioactive nuclear waste. Canada should deal with the liquid HLW but there’s money to be made by the processing – in the aging H-Canyon – and dumping the high-level waste tanks at $R$.
US DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) update
EM Update | Vol. 11, Issue 3 | Jan. 22, 2019
https://content.govdelivery.com/…/USDOEOEM/bulletins/22858d4
“Keeping SRS Workers Safe in Highly Enriched Uranium Campaign”
AIKEN, S.C. – Through deliberate work, planning, and continuous monitoring, EM and the management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) ensure the safety of workers involved in a project to blend down liquid highly enriched uranium that is shipped offsite for use in generating electricity.
“The target residue material (TRM) posed a significant challenge to the team in designing the processes for safely handling the material, which is shipped in individual stainless-steel containers,” said Johnny Lott, facility manager with H Area Radiological Protection Department (RPD) at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS).
Lott said the containers, which have significant dose and contamination rates, need to be handled with extra care to ensure safety. That’s why SRNS devised ways to limit worker exposure to the containers and provide real-time monitoring of personnel involved in the project, he said.
complete update linked above