The ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and a June legal settlement between the state and the Department of Energy to prevent mislabeled radioactive waste shipments from again ending up at the Nevada National Security Site dominate the site’s just released 2020 environmental report. The settlement reached this summer calls upon DOE to increase the vetting and tighten the waste acceptance criteria for low-level and mixed low-level waste sent to the Nevada National Security Site from federal locations across the country, according to the 280-page report released this month.
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