DOE works to make earthquake-resistant enclosure for nuclear waste

DOE works to make earthquake-resistant enclosure for nuclear waste

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete casks.It’s progress that has been 10 years in the making, said Ray Geimer, the new Department of Energy manager of Hanford, speaking at the Oregon Hanford Cleanup Board.Now the capsules, which contain 30% of the radioactivity at the Hanford site, or abo…