This script came from Web-Development. Project supports the Hanford Site cleanup mission by providing safe, economic, and environmentally sound management of Hanford's spent nuclear fuel in a manner which initiates interim storage, and deactivates the 100K Area Facilities.
Fuel stored in the basins exists in a degraded state and continues to corrode.
The Spent Nuclear Fuel Project will decrease human and environmental risk by removing the spent fuel from the present deficient storage conditions and placing it into safe cost-effective interim dry storage until a national geologic repository is available. The Spent Nuclear Fuel Project will also remove sludge, debris, and water from the basins. Approximately 30 metric tons of non-defense production reactor spent nuclear fuel is also stored at various locations at the Hanford site. The Spent Nuclear Fuel Project will consolidate this fuel in the 200 Area for safe interim storage.