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This symposium marks to the month the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the atomic age with the detonation of the world’s first fission weapons in August, 1945. To support this effort, in 1943, the first full-scale nuclear reactors and processing plants needed for the production and isolation of 239Pu were built at the Hanford Engineering Works along the Columbia River in southeastern Washington. Starting in December, 1944, the Hanford Site, as it would later be called, began processing irradiated uranium fuel elements and subsequently isolating 239Pu bearing solutions.2 Nearly thirty years of specialty nuclear materials production at Hanford as well as a concomitant generation of vast amounts of solid and liquid radioactive waste ensued. With the end of the cold war, the emphasis at the Hanford Site is now directed at remediation of these radioactive waste byproducts.
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Darab, J.G., Li, H., Matson, D.W., Smith, P.A., MacCrone, R.K. (1996). Chemical and Structural Elucidation of Minor Components in Simulated Hanford Low-Level Waste Glasses. In: D’Amico, K.L., Terminello, L.J., Shuh, D.K. (eds) Synchrotron Radiation Techniques in Industrial, Chemical, and Materials Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5837-8_17
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