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Success StoryApril 8, 2022The TRISO-X, LLC Fuel Fabrication Facility will be the nation’s first High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) fuel fabrication facility.Office of Nuclear Energy
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BulletinApril 5, 2022University researchers produce a novel method of shipping the promising medical isotope Astatine-211Isotope R&D and Production (DOE IP)
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April 5, 2022Elected officials and EM leaders last week commended the team that completed the exhumation of targeted waste from 5.69 acres of a Cold War weapons landfill at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.Office of Environmental Management
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April 5, 2022IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – The Accelerated Retrieval Project I (ARP I), an effort to identify and exhume specific buried waste from a waste repository at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, began in January 2005.Office of Environmental Management
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April 5, 2022DOE, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state of Idaho signed a record of decision to clean up a pit within a waste repository at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site using a chemical extraction process, which later proved unsuccessful.Office of Environmental Management
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April 5, 2022Environmental monitoring near a waste repository originally named the “burial ground” at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site officially began in 1960 when the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began drilling wells at the landfill perimeter.Office of Environmental Management
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April 5, 2022Following several buried waste exhumation projects in the 1970s, the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site tested technologies to allow for a larger waste retrieval effort and attempt to minimize the spread of contaminated soil.Office of Environmental Management
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April 5, 2022Just months after the Experimental Breeder Reactor-I began generating electricity in December 1951 in a historic first, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site opened its first waste repository on the 890-square-mile Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) site.Office of Environmental Management
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March 31, 2022The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s Uranium Processing Facility Project has reached a significant milestone with all buildings being fully enclosed, or “in the dry.”National Nuclear Security Administration
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March 30, 2022DOE EM and State of Idaho officials gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site to mark the completion of a high-priority cleanup project that helps protect the Snake River Plain Aquifer and maintains a commitment with the state of Idaho.Office of Environmental Management