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Powering the Future: How States Are Shaping the Future of Nuclear
31 Jan 2026 05:05 GMT
… as those pertaining to the Savannah River Site. In other states, executive … harnessing their capabilities to further nuclear deployment, and opportunities for development … official, designated nuclear energy coordinator, or other nuclear industry network to …
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Nuclear Waste Transformed: PNNL Scientists Solidify History With Glass
27 Jan 2026 21:44 GMT
… began immobilizing low-activity, radioactive waste by converting it … widely used tools for nuclear waste vitrification: the liquid … underway at DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. In … PNNL.”
Samples of pretreated, radioactive tank waste pulled from …
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TVA, US nuclear weapons agency reach record tritium output
24 Jan 2026 05:11 GMT
… , a radioactive gas that increases the explosive power of nuclear warheads, after … the Savannah River Site outside Aiken, South Carolina, where workers with the National Nuclear … ,792 rods.
Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen gas. It …
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US Aiken Standard, S.C. Discover Aiken: Museum displays artifacts from 75 years of Savannah River Site operations
01 Jan 2026 02:21 GMT
… the DuPont Corporation that nuclear materials production facilities to … executive director of the Savannah River Site museum, said she expects … the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. A stack … ;s role in advancing nuclear science, national defense and …
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Discover Aiken: Museum displays artifacts from 75 years of Savannah River Site operations
31 Dec 2025 12:41 GMT
… the DuPont Corporation that nuclear materials production facilities to … , executive director of the Savannah River Site museum, said she expects … 1, the first artificial nuclear reactor. It was developed … the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. A stack …
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A Grave Problem with South Carolina’s New Nuclear Warhead
22 Jan 2026 13:53 GMT
… new coins, since the Savannah River Site would refurbish existing plutonium … fellow watchdogs at other nuclear weapons production sites … agreed, and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) settled … 200 million curies of radioactive waste. “If they …
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Discover Aiken: An overview of the Savannah River Site from 1950 to today
29 Dec 2025 21:31 GMT
… the future and the Savannah River Site plays a crucial ongoing … design and production of nuclear weapons and materials from … tritium and plutonium-239 for nuclear weapons. Two separation plants, … sites for final assemblies as nuclear arsenal was built. By …
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Discover Aiken: More than 6,000 people were relocated to build the Savannah River Site
27 Dec 2025 19:09 GMT
Tasked by the Atomic Energy Commission in June 1950 to identify a site for the production of nuclear weapons materials, DuPont Corporation made its recommendation 151 days later.
The following week, on Nov. 28, 1950, the announcement was made that the …
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INTERVIEW: Recollections of an Andalucian who was just a child when the USA accidentally dropped four atom bombs on Spain – in what became known as the Palomares nuclear disaster
17 Jan 2026 10:40 GMT
… Broken Arrow: The Palomares Nuclear Accident.”
What does ‘Operation … that the accidents involved nuclear weapons and Geiger … were shipped to the Savannah River Site of the US Atomic … still contaminated sites and radioactive hazards?
Despite official assurances …
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Fischer supports over $7.6 billion in national defense and nuclear modernization funding
16 Jan 2026 12:43 GMT
… programs under the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) … funding to modernize our nuclear deterrent and sustainment programs. … in New Mexico and Savannah River Site in South Carolina, and … for the B61-13 nuclear gravity bomb.
Additionally, …