Waste Management

US / Savannah River Workers Begin Dissolving Nuclear Material From Japanese Reactor

By David Dalton
4 October 2024

Work carried out at H Canyon chemical separations facility

Savannah River Workers Begin Dissolving Nuclear Material From Japanese Reactor
Crews installed an electrolytic dissolver in the H Canyon Chemical Separations Facility at the Savannah River Site to dissolve nuclear material from Japan. Courtesy US DOE.
Workers at the Savannah River Site* in the US have started dissolving nuclear material from a Japanese research reactor, leading to its safe disposal, in what the US Department of Energy called “another critical milestone”.

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