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Nuke safety issues at uranium storehouse : Local News : Knoxville News Sentinel

Nuke safety issues at uranium storehouseBy Frank Munger (Contact)Originally published 10:34 a.m., January 27, 2009Updated 10:56 a.m., January 27, 2009

A federal review board has found deficiencies in the nuclear safety evaluations for Y-12’s new storehouse for bomb-grade uranium, noting that failure to meet requirements could “potentially compromise the requisite safety margin for fissionable material operations.”

The problem involves the evaluations and supporting documents that were done to demonstrate nuclear criticality safety for $549 million storage center, known officially as the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility.

For more details, see Frank Munger’s blog Atomic City Underground.

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Nuke safety issues at uranium storehouse : Local News : Knoxville News Sentinel

January 28, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized