In Nuke Cleanup Milestone, DOE Washing Out Toughest Tank Wastes

By George Lobsenz

In a first for the Energy Department's nuclear cleanup program, workers at the Savannah River Site last month began spraying acid into two underground storage tanks for high-level radioactive waste in an effort to wash away lumps of hardened waste stuck to...

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Guest Column: BY LLEWELLYN KING

COMMENTARY There is a joke of no known authorship which says, “No good deed shall go unpunished.” So, alas, it has been with nuclear power. The gift was given to the world by the storied Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, which wrote and promoted... More »