Waste Control Specialists plans to join Studsvik for the storage of Class B & C Low-Level Radioactive waste. This announcement is a result of the closure of the Barnwell County site in mid 2008. The idea behind this partnership is to “have one centrally located facility to store a stable waste form” as opposed to each facility storing its own.
Studsvik’s role in the process involves removing organics to create the more stable waste form. As for WCS, it’s believed that their facility is well suited to service power plants across the United States. Currently the WCS facility is authorized to include the processing, and storage of low-level and mixed low-level radioactive wastes.
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