Trump’s 2020 budget pitch includes multimillion-dollar boost for SRS cleanup
The budget blueprint, a far cry from actual appropriation, allocates about
Trump's request affords
Environmental Management, created in 1989, is tasked with overseeing and remediating what decades of nuclear weapon development and government-sponsored nuclear research has affected. Environmental Management is right now juggling 16 sites across 11 states.
The local Environmental Management bump, according to
The SWPF, a 140,000-square-foot plant designed to put SRS's liquid waste mission on steroids, is expected to be operational by the end of this year.
The overarching liquid waste mission at SRS, currently conducted by
SRR is an
The president's request also invests in the continued construction of Saltstone Disposal Unit 7; final design and initial construction of Saltstone Disposal units 8 and 9; and the very beginnings of Saltstone Disposal units 10, 11 and 12.
SDUs are massive tanks designed to permanently house processed waste at SRS.
SDU 6, which received a radioactive transfer of 8,500 gallons near the end of last year, was completed in
Overall, the
"This request will clean up ... millions of gallons of liquid radioactive waste and thousands of tons of spent (used) nuclear fuel and nuclear materials," the documents read.
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