• DOI:10.1080/00963402.2018.1486616
Corpus ID: 149512093

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}
}

• Vincent Ialenti
• Published 2018
• Business
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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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