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Advanced Reactors GEIS Docs - DOE Issues Decision on Disposal of Depleted Uranium Oxide from Kentucky, Ohio Plants

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Home >> DOE Issues Decision on Disposal of Depleted Uranium Oxide From Kentucky, Ohio Plants Interpretation Nuclear Materials WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department Packaging & of Transportation Energy (DOE) today Regulatory Compliance issued a formal Record of Decision (ROD) for the safeRemediation Soil & Groundwater shipment and disposal of depleted uranium oxide Tank fromWasteformer gaseousand Processing diffusion Tank Closure Mission plants in Portsmouth, Ohio and Paducah, Mission Kentucky.

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DOE Issues Decision on Disposal of Depleted Uranium Oxide From Kentucky, Ohio Plants l Department of Energy Search DOEs near-term plan is to focus on depleted uranium oxide disposal at commercial sites. DOE is planning a pilot project in the next year to ship several railcars containing cylinders of depleted uranium oxide to a commercial disposal facility.

Depleted uranium oxide results from the conversion of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6), a byproduct of the gaseous diffusion process that was used to enrich uranium for government and commercial needs. Conversion plants now operating at the Portsmouth and Paducah sites convert DUF6 to depleted uranium oxide, a more stable form for possible reuse or disposal.

Under the National Environmental Policy Act, the DOE completed a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement that evaluated the potential impacts associated with transporting and disposing of depleted uranium oxide, which meets requirements for disposition as low-level radioactive waste.

More information on the ROD is available here.

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