The Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) Path at Hanford

Explore the path of Hanford's tank waste as it undergoes the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste -- or DFLAW -- process.

[@WindTreeStudios]

Wow! Unbelievable challenges and complexity with this clean up! Thank goodness we have so many highly educated and well funded people tackling this problem. Many prayers for your health, safety and success!

[@TL-xv9of]

Don't want to know how this is going in the former Soviet Union states. Thank you for your excellent work.

[@paulbradford6475]

It's just a guess on my part, but I bet nothing is going on in the former Soviet Union to clean up their nuclear waste.

[@lv3184]

All Soviet plutonium production facilities were located in what is today Russia. The Soviets had 3 such sites (Mayak, Seversk, Zheleznogorsk) while the US had 2 (Hanford and Savannah River). The Russians currently do not face the problem of having to deal with large quantities of legacy liquid nuclear reprocessing waste because unlike the US sites, the Russian sites did not store their waste in waste tanks. Instead, they disposed of their waste by releasing it into nearby rivers and lakes like Mayak did, or they disposed of the waste by injecting it into deep waste disposal boreholes like they did at Zheleznogorsk. It goes without saying that the methods used at the Russian sites have had disastrous ecological consequences. Mayak in particular has caused near irreversible and massive contamination of nearby bodies of water such as the Techa river and Karachay lake.

[@Robert112658]

Awesome!!!!