The losing bidder for a Hanford contract valued at $45 billion says the winning bidder has a poor safety record and that its proposed management team is not as strong as the Department of Energy ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission planned to hold a predecisional enforcement conference at agency headquarters in Rockville, Md., on Sept. 22 as part of a continuing investigation of a fatal fire BWX ...

Two large redundant items that were removed from Dounreay’s facilities have now left the site for disposal or diversion, opening up new waste routes. Dounreay in partnership with Nuclear Waste ...

The cleanup contractor at the U.S. Department of Energy desert site west of Idaho Falls has finished processing the liquid waste there known as “squeezeants.” The waste in question was generated by ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK)-Fluor Idaho has finished processing a liquid waste they call ”squeezants.” The material is created when its squeezed out of waste drums. The process will allow the ...

The supercompactor system operating as part of the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) has The hydraulic housing located on top of the supercompactor. Image credit: DOE-Fluor Idahoachieved ...

A unique piece of equipment that can compress a 55-gallon (200-litre) waste drum to a fifth of its original size has achieved 100,000 hours of operation at the US Department of Energy's Idaho site.

DOUNREAY has announced its new supercompactor has crushed its 1000th drum of low level waste since the plant’s re-start in July. Located at the Waste Receipt Assay Characterisation and Supercompaction ...

The remotely-operated machine has a throughput of up to 10-12 drums/hour. It is suitable for LLW including evaporator concentrates, filter resins, scrap, sludge and miscellaneous waste. It can be ...