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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.
E. A. Mershad, W. W. Thomasson, J. J. Dauby
Nuclear Technology | Volume 32 | Number 1 | January 1977 | Pages 53-59
Technical Paper | Materials in Waste Storage / Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31737
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An improved method for packaging tritiated waste water and oil for burial has been developed that significantly reduces tritium exposures to personnel and environment. The package uses current technology and relatively inexpensive materials to provide containment of the waste. Tests of the burial package indicate that the maximum tritium released during an 85-yr (7 half-lives of tritium) burial would be 0.002% of the total tritium contained in the package, or ∼1.4 Ci from the 70 000- Ci (2.59-PBq) (recommended maximum) package.