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Savannah River Site completes concrete work for Saltstone Disposal Unit 11
The Savannah River Site has completed all concrete construction on its “mega-size” Saltstone Disposal Unit (SDU) 11 at the Saltstone Disposal Facility in Aiken, S.C. The several SDUs at the site are designed to provide safe, permanent storage for decontaminated salt solution from the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) as production is ramped up. The SDUs are crucial components of SRS’s liquid waste program, allowing the site to meet the cleanup responsibilities of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Samuel E. Bays, Gilles J. Youinou, Misti Lillo, Paul Gilbreath
Nuclear Technology | Volume 201 | Number 3 | March 2018 | Pages 191-208
Critical Review | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2018.1432967
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The Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) celebrated 50 years of operation in 2017. Even after this much time, the general four-leaf clover design by Deslonde de Boisblanc is still deserving of the title “advanced.” This paper provides a high-level overview of the current irradiation capabilities of the ATR. The goal of this paper is to illustrate the types of irradiation facilities that are currently available within the ATR, the current irradiation missions that make use of these capabilities, and their connection to advancing nuclear technology.