The “hot”, or radioactive commissioning testing phase, has been completed of operations at the salt waste processing facility (SWPF) at the Savanna River Site in South Carolina, the US Department of Energy announced.
The DOE said its Office of Environmental Management had validated radiation shielding, environmental emissions, and product waste acceptance requirements while processing about 1.4 million litres of radioactive liquid waste from a tank farm at Savannah River.
Completion of the hot commissioning testing phase signals the facility’s entrance into fully integrated operations with the other Savannah River liquid waste facilities.
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