Waste makes haste: How a campaign to speed up nuclear waste shipments shut down the WIPP long-term repository
@article{Ialenti2018WasteMH, title={Waste makes haste: How a campaign to speed up nuclear waste shipments shut down the WIPP long-term repository}, author={Vincent Ialenti}, journal={Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists}, year={2018}, volume={74}, pages={262 - 275} }
ABSTRACT What happened, in the years leading up to Valentine’s Day 2014, that made a canister of nuclear waste burst open and spew out fire underground at a US facility for the long-term disposal of radioactive military waste? According to one widely publicized scenario, a simple run-of-the-mill typo led to organic kitty litter mistakenly being used to soak up liquid in the drum instead of another kind of absorbent material. This ultimately led to a chemical chain reaction that made heat and… Expand
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