Energy Department Has Made Progress Cleaning Up Nuclear Weapons Plants

摘要

The Department of Energy, after years of expensive false starts, has actually begun to make progress in addressing its own Cold War legacy—the detritus of nuclear weapons production. But for some aspects of nuclear waste cleanup—expected to cost $230 billion—DOE has not yet settled on a preferred system. Its two largest production sites—Hanford near Richland, Wash., and Savannah River near Aiken, S.C.—are pursuing very different cleanup approaches.