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DOE officials check out cleanup progress in Paducah
Officials from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management recently got a firsthand look at cleanup progress being made at the Paducah Site in western Kentucky. The site is owned by the DOE, which is overseeing environmental cleanup activities there, including environmental remediation, waste management, depleted uranium conversion, and decontamination and decommissioning.
The visit by Dae Chung, associate principal deputy assistant secretary for corporate services, and other EM officials included stops at the C-400 cleaning building remediation project, the new Large Item Neutron Assay System (LINAS), and the C-333 process building deactivation.
Item ID: 690057|ISBN: 978-0-89448-567-1
2002|1st Edition|276 pages
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Description
This book presents the best entries from Bill Minkler's well-received column that appeared in Nuclear News for more than three decades.
