It is a little over 6 tons stored at the K - reactor at Savannah River that was found to be to impure for conversion to MOX fuel. Also, they are cancelling the MOX plant at SR. They have about 60 tons of pit plutonium set aside for conversion that they will have to figure out what to do with...
The containers shipped to WIPP were never vitrified. The non-pit plutonium was ground down to an oxide powder at Savannah River and then they were infused with a classified material called stardust and then glass and other inert materials were added to reduce the plutonium percentage under the...
I have a question regarding the storage capabilities at the WIPP facility. My initial impression of WIPP is that it was to be used for the storage of materials contaminated by transuranic elements during the manufacture and production of Department of Defense weapons. However, it appears that...