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Return of the HB Line at SRS
The Department of Energy is bringing the HB Line facility at the Savannah River Site back on line to recycle surplus plutonium and produce uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel for advanced reactors.
Restarting the facility will be a multiyear process and will yield opportunities for increased domestic production of isotopes with scientific and commercial value. The DOE said that once operational, the HB Line will accelerate the Office of Environmental Management’s plutonium disposition mission by 10 to 13 years while reducing the existing cost.
International High Level Radioactive Waste Management (IHLRWM 2025)
Irina Gaus was appointed Head of the Department of Optimisation and Member of the Executive Board at Nagra in January 2023. From 2016 to 2024, she led Nagra’s Research and Development Programme, supporting the General Licence Application submitted in November 2024. She joined Nagra in 2007, after research positions at the French Geological Survey (BRGM) on carbon storage and aquifer management, and at the British Geological Survey as a hydrogeologist.
Her expertise spans radioactive waste disposal, optimisation, RD&D management, safety case development, and subsurface processes. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers.
Irina is currently Chief Scientific Officer of EURAD2 – the European Partnership on Radioactive Waste Management and was Chair of the Implementing Geological Disposal Technology Platform (2019–2022). She holds a PhD and MSc in Hydrogeology from the University of Ghent (Belgium).
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