Los Alamos lab finishes treating drums of nitrate salt waste
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March 21, 2018
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have finished treating more than two dozen drums of waste that contained nitrate salts similar to one that caused a 2014 radiation release at the federal government's underground repository.
The U.S. Energy Department on Tuesday announced the treatment of the 27 drums.
The containers of nitrate salt waste had not previously been treated so over the last three months crews mixed the waste with water and an inert material to neutralize the combustible characteristic of the salts.
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