DOE Should Better Guard Against Explosions, Fires, at Savannah River Tritium Facility, DNFSB Says

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The Department of Energy should better protect workers at the Savannah River Site’s tritium facilities from accidents that could deliver high doses of radiation, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) recommended Wednesday. The board said in a new safety recommendation that DOE workers, and the public at large, could be imperiled by “energetic accidents”: fires, falling cranes, or even explosions that might release large quantities of radioactive tritium gas, “creating the potential for acute radiation sickness or fatality.”