SRS Adds Shifts to Plutonium Dilute and Dispose Program at K-Area

摘要

The Savannah River Site has been running a four-shift glove box operation at its main plutonium-disposal program in the site’s K-Area for a little more than a month now, a site spokesperson said this week. The Aiken, S.C., site ratcheted up to four shifts from two on June 1, the spokesperson wrote Tuesday in an email to Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor. It takes about 48 operators to staff the four shifts in the 15-foot-long glove box, the site said in a press release this week. Savannah River is preparing the plutonium for disposal offsite. Also in the press release, Savannah River Site (SRS) said it has finished building a storage pad at K-Area to stage barrels of transuranic waste that the plutonium disposal program eventually will produce.