Contract Awarded for Nuclear Waste Disposal
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $550-million contract to UE&C; Catalytic Inc. of Philadelphia to construct a facility that solidifies liquid nuclear waste.
The waste vitrification plant will be built at the DOE’s Hanford Reservation, a 560-square-mile nuclear facility near Richland, Wash. It is scheduled to begin operating by the year 2000.
UE&C; spokeswoman Nancy Pigford said the plant is designed to turn high-level liquid nuclear waste into a glass-like substance for shipment to deep underground burial sites.
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