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DOE-EM finishes cleanup of legacy Oak Ridge reactor lab site
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced that the 30-foot-long, 37,600-pound reactor vessel from Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Low Intensity Test Reactor was shipped to EnergySolutions’ low-level radioactive waste facility in Clive, Utah, in late April.
Thomas Daly, Sreekanth Pannala, Arthur Ruggles
Transactions | Volume 109 | Number 1 | November 2013 | Pages 1837-1840