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GAO report describes cleanup progress at Moab Mill Site
A new report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office states that the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) has disposed of more than 16 million tons of radioactive and hazardous waste from the Moab Mill Site. While cleanup continues at the Cold War–era uranium ore processing site in southeastern Utah, a plan for the next phase of groundwater remediation is still needed, according to the GAO.
P. A. Carlson, W. K. Kratzer
Nuclear Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | March 1976 | Pages 383-387
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31520
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The N Reactor is equipped with 12 horizontal U-tube steam generators. Originally, these contained Type 304 stainless-steel tubes. From 1964 through 1971, ten were retubed with Inconel-600 tubes because severe stress corrosion cracking was experienced in stainless-steel tubes. Tube performance is monitored by eddy-current examinations, tube removals for destructive examination, and checking for radioactivity in the secondary system. The results of this program show that no significant corrosion has occurred in the Inconel-600 tubes in 11 yr of service. Five tube leaks have occurred in the two remaining units with Type 304 stainless-steel tubes over the same period.