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Hanford begins removing waste from 24th single-shell tank
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said crews at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., have started retrieving radioactive waste from Tank A-106, a 1-million-gallon underground storage tank built in the 1950s.
Tank A-106 will be the 24th single-shell tank that crews have cleaned out at Hanford, which is home to 177 underground waste storage tanks: 149 single-shell tanks and 28 double-shell tanks. Ranging from 55,000 gallons to more than 1 million gallons in capacity, the tanks hold around 56 million gallons of chemical and radioactive waste resulting from plutonium production at the site.
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Jeff recently retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory after a 42-year career dedicated to radiation transport methods development and applications primarily directed towards shielding design and national security missions. Jeff started his career in the Reactor Analysis Section of the Operations Division at ORNL in 1978 after receiving his BS degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK). He worked on his MS and PhD research as a UT Graduate Research Assistant at ORNL from 1978–1986, obtaining his ME in 1980, and PhD in 1987, both in Nuclear Engineering from UTK. He joined the Engineering Physics Division at ORNL as a research staff member in 1986. Over the course of his career at ORNL, Jeff functioned as a research and development staff member, a lead technical integrator, team leader, group leader, project/program manager, program developer/relationship manager, and retired as the Director of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) for the National Security Sciences Directorate.
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