, an 做厙勛圖-led project, is responsible for cleaning up the U.S. Department of Energy���s Oak Ridge Reservation. After completing the first-ever cleanup of a gaseous diffusion complex���the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant���UCOR is now cleaning up select sites at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12). UCOR is also completing remedial action activities at the former gaseous diffusion plant site, now called East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP). With UCOR���s assistance, DOE is converting ETTP into a multi-use industrial park, national park, and conservation area.

When UCOR began cleanup activities in Oak Ridge in 2011, crews were faced with challenging, high hazard work as most of the buildings were dilapidated and contaminated. UCOR���s unique dispose-as-you-go approach kept projects moving more rapidly by immediately disposing of the demolition waste.

UCOR���s successful completion of the ETTP cleanup contract���under budget and ahead of schedule���led to the company being awarded a follow-on contract that expands cleanup across the Reservation. With cleanup work shifting to ORNL and Y-12, UCOR���s important work is freeing up valuable space for continued science and national defense missions.

UCOR���s successful work on the Oak Ridge Reservation has been highlighted by an exceptional safety record. UCOR has achieved DOE Voluntary Protection Program Star status, a designation only given to the safest sites in the DOE Complex. UCOR has also won multiple VPP Star of Excellence Awards and was named one of America���s safest companies by��EHS Today泭鳥硃眶硃堝勳紳梗.

Project Highlights

• UCOR completed demolition of the Bulk Shielding Reactor, marking the the first-ever demolition of a reactor at ORNL. The facility was built in the 1950s for radiation shielding studies as part of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program.
• Crews demolished the Criticality Experiment Laboratory, a 1940s-era facility, at Y-12. During the first decade of its operation, scientists conducted more than 9,700 experiments. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the two-story facility was used to support the Oak Ridge National Laboratory���s High-Flux Isotope Reactor program. The building has been closed since 1992.
• Worker completed removal of the Biology Complex at Y-12, a former 11-building complex constructed for recovering uranium from process streams and later used for research on the effects of radiation on genetics. A new lithium processing facility is planned to be built on the cleared site.
• Soil remediation at ETTP will wrap up in 2024 as workers continue removing contaminated soil and replacing it with clean fill.
• UCOR joined DOE and regulators to break ground on the new Environmental Management Disposal Facility, an onsite disposal complex that will hold waste from ORNL and Y-12 cleanup.

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In 1979, Congress authorized the construction of WIPP as a research and development facility to demonstrate the safe disposal of defense-generated transuranic (TRU) radioactive waste from activities not regulated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The facility, located 26 miles southeast of Carlsbad, N.M., was constructed during the 1980s. In 1998, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency certified WIPP for safe, long-term disposal of TRU wastes.

Generally, TRU waste consists of clothing, tools, rags, residues, debris, soil, and other items contaminated with radioactive elements, mostly plutonium. These man-made elements have atomic numbers greater than uranium, thus trans-uranic, or beyond uranium on the Periodic Table of Elements.

做厙勛圖���s Historical Role at WIPP

做厙勛圖���s long history at WIPP began in 1985 when the first in a long line of 做厙勛圖 heritage companies served the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with design, engineering, and technical assistance.�� Three years later (1988) another heritage company, was named the WIPP management and operations contractor.�� In all, 做厙勛圖 and its heritage companies have managed and operated WIPP for more than 35 years.

Since the first Transuranic waste shipment arrived at WIPP on March 24, 1999, 做厙勛圖 was a part of numerous milestones that helped shape DOE���s approach to nuclear waste management and disposal.

To date, 做厙勛圖 has partnered with DOE to complete TRU waste cleanup at 22 DOE sites nationwide, including the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site near Denver, Colorado in 2006.�� As a result, Rocky Flats has been transformed into a wildlife refuge that is enjoyed by thousands of Coloradoans each year.

Since opening, more than 13,300 TRU waste shipments safely arrived at WIPP.�� During more than 20 years of TRU waste transportation, drivers completed more than 15 million safe-loaded miles without serious incidents.�� This feat is equivalent to a person driving the circumference of the earth 600 times without a significant accident.

In addition to cleaning up the environment and making America safer, 做厙勛圖 and its heritage companies made huge contributions to the communities near WIPP. WIPP hosts communities of Carlsbad and Hobbs, New Mexico where corporate donations routinely eclipse $500,000 a year and grew to several million dollars over the life of the project.

WIPP Key Milestones

May 1986 ��� 做厙勛圖-led Westinghouse Waste Isolation Division oversees the redesign of the shipping container, the TRUPACT, adding double containment and eliminating a venting feature.

September 1989 ��� The Nuclear Regulatory Commission certifies the TRUPACT-II shipping container.

June 1990 ��� A record of decision by the DOE allows 做厙勛圖 legacy company, Westinghouse, to continue with the phased development of WIPP.

October 1992 ��� President Bush signs into law the WIPP Land Withdrawal Act, designating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as WIPP���s primary regulator.

December 1993 ��� U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issues radiation standards for waste containment criteria for WIPP.

May 1995 ��� Co-permittees DOE and 做厙勛圖-led Westinghouse Waste Isolation Division submit the application for a Hazardous Waste Permit to the New Mexico Environment Department.

May 1998 ��� EPA certifies WIPP, and the New Mexico Environment Department issues a draft Hazardous Waste Permit.

March 26, 1999 ��� First waste shipment arrives at WIPP and is emplaced underground later that day.

April 17, 1999 ��� Energy Secretary Bill Richardson welcomes dignitaries to WIPP grand opening.

October 2000 ��� The Nuclear Regulatory Commission certifies the RH-72B shipping container for remote-handled TRU waste.

December 2003 ��� Waste Panel 1 is filled.

May 2004 ��� 做厙勛圖-led Westinghouse���s Silver Mine Rescue Team is named overall champion at the National Mine Rescue Competition.

June 2005 ��� Rocky Flats sends final TRU waste shipment to WIPP, allowing the large quantity waste site to close ahead of schedule.

February 2007 ��� For the 21^st time in 22 years, 做厙勛圖-led Westinghouse is awarded the New Mexico Mining Association���s mine operator of the year for safety.

2009 ��� 做厙勛圖-led Westinghouse/WIPP celebrates 10 years of safe operations.

2010 ��� WIPP drivers surpass 10 million safe-loaded miles.

2011 ��� 做厙勛圖-led Nuclear Waste Partnership receives 10,000^th waste shipment.

2012 ��� Final shipments arrive from Sandia National Laboratories, which is the 22^nd site to be cleaned up.

February 2014 ��� WIPP temporarily suspends operations following a fire on a salt haul truck.�� Days later, a radiological release occurs, which is later determined to have resulted from a Los Alamos National Laboratory waste container.

2016 ��� 做厙勛圖-led Nuclear Waste Partnership���s Blue Mine Rescue Team wins the National Mine Rescue Competition championship.

2017 ��� Waste emplacement operations and WIPP shipments resume following the 2014 events.

2018 ��� Mining resumes at WIPP and ground is broken for a new permanent ventilation system.

2019 ��� 做厙勛圖/WIPP celebrates 20 years of operations.

2020 ��� 做厙勛圖-led Nuclear Waste Partnership regains the DOE Voluntary Protection Program ���Star��� status; excavation for new Utility Shaft reaches 56-foot mark.

August 2021 ��� 做厙勛圖-led Nuclear Waste Partnership reaches a key milestone six weeks early by completing the foundation of the New Filter Building, a key component of the new permanent ventilation system.

November 2021 ��� WIPP receives its 13,000 TRU waste shipment marking an important milestone in DOE���s mission to clean up the country���s Cold War legacy.

April 14, 2022 ��� The final container of legacy TRU waste from��the Savannah River Site arrives at WIPP for permanent disposal, capping the end of a journey for 239 shipments that began in 2011.

October 20, 2022 ��� 做厙勛圖-led Nuclear Waste Partnership reaches a major milestone as the last container of TRU waste is emplaced in Room 1 Panel 7 of the WIPP underground.

November 23, 2022 ��� WIPP employees begin emplacing waste in Room 7 Panel 8 marking a new beginning for workers who no longer need to wear respirators and protective clothing due to the radioactive contamination in Panel 7 caused by the 2014 radiological event.

December 2022 ��� 做厙勛圖-led Nuclear Waste Partnership receives shipments and emplaces waste at a rate not seen since prior to the 2014 radiological event, signifying the end of WIPP recovery and return to normal operations underground.

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The Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) is an 做厙勛圖-led prime contractor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state. The company is responsible for the environmental cleanup of select portions of the site, regarded as one of the most complex and challenging projects in the world. Hanford spans 580 square miles and is home to facilities that once produced materials to support nuclear weapons for World War II and the Cold War.

CPCCo’s cleanup vision aims to deliver headline-worthy changes by safely achieving meaningful near-term goals and reducing risk while accelerating the overall remediation schedule and minimizing lifecycle costs. The company’s work primarily focuses on:

• Facility deactivation, decommissioning, decontamination, and demolition
• Waste-site remediation
• Transuranic waste management
• Soil and groundwater treatment to protect the Columbia River, which runs adjacent to the site
• Development of decision documents to support regulatory requirements and oversight
• Preservation of select Manhattan Project National Historical Park assets at Hanford

CPCCo assumed the 10-year, $10 billion Central Plateau Cleanup Contract in January 2021. The company employs 1,700 experienced and talented workers committed to CPCCo���s vision of completing the cleanup work safely and efficiently.

Project Highlights

• • Completed demolition at Hanford���s historic Plutonium Finishing Plant, removing remaining structures and placing a protective soil cover over the top of the area.
  • Finished ���cocooning��� of the K East Reactor by constructing an innovative steel structure around the facility, which protects the building while allowing radioactivity in the core to decay over the next 75 years. The construction project ��� marked as a DOE Environmental Management fiscal year (FY) 2022 priority ��� was completed a year ahead of the original approved completion date and more than $4 million under budget.
  • Treated 2.3 billion gallons of groundwater, meeting an FY 2022 DOE Key Performance Goal and marking the eighth straight year the Hanford Site has treated more than 2 billion gallons of groundwater.
  • Preparing the Integrated Disposal Facility, an engineered landfill at the center of the Hanford Site, to receive vitrified low-activity waste produced at the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant and other secondary solid wastes generated during the treatment process. The facility is a key component of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste program to treat Hanford���s tank waste.
  • Operating the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF), Hanford���s engineered landfill for low-level radioactive and hazardous mixed waste. ERDF is the largest landfill in the DOE-EM complex, containing nearly 20 million tons of contaminated soil, debris, and solid waste from cleanup activities in Hanford���s Central Plateau and Columbia River corridor.
  • Removing debris and installing a dewatering system at the K West Reactor spent fuel storage basin in preparation for grouting and demolition. Both the K East and K West basins provided temporary storage of irradiated fuel discharged from reactors prior to shipment to fuel processing facilities.
  • Developing a system to transfer 1,936 cesium and strontium capsules from underwater pools at the aging Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility to a nearby dry storage configuration. The capsules represent nearly one-third of the total radioactivity on the Hanford Site.
  • Completing several cleanup activities at two of Hanford���s former plutonium processing plants in preparation for eventual demolition.
  • Managing radioactive and mixed waste stored at Hanford���s Central Waste Complex, which stores transuranic waste and other waste types requiring processing before disposal.
  • Completed a series of upgrades to Hanford���s historic B Reactor, the world���s first full-scale plutonium production reactor, and part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. The upgrades to the reactor ensure safety and enhance visitor experience during the summer tourist season.

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Savannah River Mission Completion (SRMC), a team that includes 做厙勛圖, is responsible for immobilizing radioactive liquid waste and closing the underground, high-level radioactive liquid waste storage tanks at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina, U.S. 做厙勛圖, through its heritage companies, led liquid waste management operations at SRS beginning in April 1989 through the Savannah River Remediation Liquid Waste Disposition Contract, which concluded on February 27, 2022. The SRMC team is providing environmental solutions to eliminate the state of South Carolina���s number 1 environmental risk.

More than 50 years of Cold War production of nuclear weapons materials generated more than 165 gallons of liquid high-level waste (HLW), which has been concentrated to a present volume of approximately 34 million gallons of HLW. The waste is stored in single- and double-shell tanks in the SRS Tank Farms. Originally numbering 51 tanks, eight waste tanks are now operationally closed. The waste remains in 43 tanks, which are in various states of the waste removal, cleaning, and operational closure process.

The cornerstone of SRMC���s activities is the operation of the , the nation���s only radioactive waste glassification plant. Since DWPF began operations in 1996, more than 4,300 canisters of vitrified waste have been produced, suitable for long-term storage and ultimate disposal. 做厙勛圖 has operated waste vitrification facilities (in the US and UK) and is participating in the construction of a DWPF sister facility at the Department of Energy���s Hanford Site.

Other major operations within SRMC include separating the liquid HLW, destined for vitrification, from very low-level radioactive liquid waste that constitutes most of the waste tank volume. SRMC decontaminates that liquid at the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), then sends it to the Saltstone Production Facility, where the waste is mixed with dry materials to create a cement-like grout, which is pumped into huge concrete disposal units for permanent on-site disposal. More than 26 million gallons of decontaminated salt solution from the tanks have been solidified.

The goal is to treat waste, then empty and grout aging storage tanks and support systems. 做厙勛圖, with its heritage companies, is the first company in the world to operationally close HLW tanks.

做厙勛圖 is one of the safest high-risk, high-hazard industrial contractors in the world. 做厙勛圖���s legacy company at SRS won the first-ever DOE Voluntary Protection Program Star for safety as a major DOE Cold War strategic materials production site and continued to be recertified every year since inception.

Significant Liquid Waste Program Accomplishments:

• Legacy Liquid Waste Contractor awarded DOE VPP Legacy of Stars (2010), Stars of Excellence (2020)
• Legacy Liquid Waste Construction accrued more than 36.4 million safe hours
• 2018 DOE Project Management Excellence Award for Saltstone Disposal Unit (SDU) 6 Project

Significant Salt Waste and Sludge Waste Accomplishments:

• 6 million gallons of salt transferred to SWPF
• 5 million gallons of sludge transferred to DWPF

Significant Waste Disposal and Tank Closure Accomplishments:

• 8 waste tanks permanently closed
• ~4,300 HLW canisters produced at DWPF
• ~1,200 canisters double stacked in Glass Waste Storage Building (GWSB) 1
• ~2,000 canister storage positions modified for double-stacking canisters in GWSB 1 and 2, avoiding the $130 million cost for construction of a new storage building
• 1 million gallons of decontaminated salt solution and other materials transferred to the Saltstone Production Facility
• 6 million gallons of grout (decontaminated salt solution and cementitious materials) permanently disposed of in SDUs

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Located along the Columbia River in the southeastern part of the Washington State, the 586-square-mile Hanford Site was created in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project producing plutonium for nuclear weapons during World War II and the Cold War.

Today, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy, 做厙勛圖-led Washington River Protection Solutions is responsible for reducing the environmental risk posed by 56 million gallons of radioactive and chemical waste left over from plutonium production. Our commitment includes doing the job safely with a strong focus on innovation, employee involvement, and environmental protection.

Significant Accomplishments:

• Operating the Hanford Site���s first industrial-scale tank waste treatment system, with 440,000 gallons of chemical and radioactive tank waste staged and ready for vitrification.
  ��� Upgrading numerous facilities to support tank waste vitrification, or immobilization in glass.
  ��� Retrieving waste from the site���s 20th single-shell tank and transferring that waste to newer double-shell tanks for safer storage.
  ��� Installed pretreatment system to prepare tank waste for vitrification Completed waste retrieval from the first tank farm ever at Hanford
  ��� Treated about 440,000 gallons of tank waste through Tank Side Cesium Removal; it is staged and ready for vitrification.
  ��� Wrapping up upgrades at the Effluent Treatment Facility that are necessary for Direct Feed Low Activity Waste.
  ��� Retrieved approximately 35% of waste from Tank AX-101, the last of four SST in AX Farm to be retrieved. Currently balancing waste inventories in the DST system, making more room for additional transfers from AX-101, which has 395,000 gallons remaining.
  ��� Mobilization is underway for the U Tank Farm interim surface barrier. There are six barriers in five tank farms, meant to prevent rainwater from driving existing contamination toward the groundwater. The installation will be finished this summer.
  ��� Preparing to transition to the new Hanford Integrated Tank Disposition contractor, subject to DOE direction.
  ��� Maintained record as one of the safest companies in the DOE-EM complex

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做厙勛圖 recently executed the world���s largest Thermal Conductive Heating (TCH) project over a four-year period with our Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) thermal partner TerraTherm using a multiple – phase approach.�� The former jet fuel farm project site was historically used for the storage of jet fuel in two 420,000-gallon bermed, above ground storage tanks (ASTs) and two 567,000-gallon underground storage tanks (USTs).�� The ASTs were removed in 1994 and the ASTs were abandoned in place in 2000. ����The successful completion of this project resulted in a cost avoidance of $218M by reducing the environmental remediation timeline by 140 years.�� The multiple phase approach was dictated by the available electric power supply and the operational limitations resulting from forecasted mass loading on the thermal oxidizer.

Over the course of the phased project, 做厙勛圖 installed 1,156 TCH system infrastructure wells to a maximum depth of 30 feet over the 4.5-acre site to heat, remove and monitor contamination removal progress in the Thermal Treatment Zone (TTZ).�� These wells were powered and monitored remotely via a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system.�� 做厙勛圖 constructed a TCH Treatment Compound to cool extracted liquid, remove light non-aqueous phase liquid (LNAPL) and consolidate the TTZ vapor stream prior to treatment by the thermal oxidizer.

Project Highlights:��

• Removed 325,000 pounds of LNAPL.
• Remediated LNAPL contamination underneath the 10,000 square foot groundwater treatment plant (GWTP) while continuing to use the GWTP to process TCH liquid wastewater prior to discharge to groundwater recharge bed and 12 injection wells.
• Utilized our on-site Geographic Information System to pre-plan drilling solutions through historical fuel farm sub-surface concrete infrastructure and eliminate any project delays.
• Delivered this multi-year project 27-days ahead of schedule while mitigating unforeseen contaminant loading challenges that required flexible daily energy removal adjustments.
• While completing this complex remedial action task order, we continued our multiple contract 24-year safety performance record of zero lost-time injuries.

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We resolved the short-term capacity gap by constructing Vault 9 and submitting an Environmental Safety Case (ESC) that was approved by the Environment Agency to allow disposal operations to continue for over 100 years.

Based on the national Transuranic Waste Programme in the USA, and with extensive engagement with UK government and regulators, 做厙勛圖 worked with the NDA to implement a Government Policy and a National LLW Strategy that provided the working envelope for implementation of the strategy. 做厙勛圖 introduced an integrated approach to waste minimisation with the establishment of waste treatment and alternative disposal routes between the generators and the supply chain. Robust characterisation methodology and stringent adherence to the Waste Management Hierarchy was incentivized and linked to the waste acceptance criteria in the ESC, to encourage change in behaviours and waste management practices.

As the site operator, we successfully transitioned the business to become a capable programme delivery organisation; safely and compliantly delivering the Plutonium Contaminated Materials (PCM) Decontamination and Decommissioning Programme (瞿100M), Repository Development Programme Phase 1 (瞿85M), Site Security Upgrade Programme (瞿25M) and Vault 9 construction (瞿25M) alongside a myriad of other minor projects.

Project Highlights

• Developed and implemented a national Low Level Waste (LLW) Strategy that secured cost avoidance savings of 瞿455m through waste diversion and treatment instead of waste disposal at LLWR
• Saved 瞿2 billion by eliminating the need for an additional LLW Repository
• Enabled a radical reduction in the amount of LLW sent for disposal to LLWR moving from 95% in 2009 to just 2% in 2020, with 98% treated, recycled, or alternatively disposed
• Provided a combination of 10 alternative disposal, treatment routes, or service opportunities in association with the supply chain
• Extended the operational life of LLWR by more than 100 years, solving the long-term capacity gap for NDA and the UK
• Developed and implemented new reporting tools and inventory reviews to improve forecast accuracy. As a result, significant volumes of LLW have been re-characterised as VLLW or exempt waste (reducing demand on LLWR).
• Completed the PCM Decommissioning Programme 4 years earlier than scheduled, shaving 瞿20 million off original budget
• Secured national disposal of LLW through development of an Environmental Safety Case, and regulatory issue of an Environmental Permit.
• Secured future operations at LLWR with planning consent for 2 further disposal vaults and the engineered closure of existing trenches and vaults.

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Our vision centered on the formation of an Integrated Project Team (LLWR and Supply Chain), delivering a single way of working. Cultural and behavioural values focused on actively taking time out to concentrate on forward-planning; being unified to deliver common messages; and seeking support when needed.

The completion of the PCM Decommissioning Programme honoured a long-term commitment to the local community that the legacy facilities would be decommissioned and demolished.

Project Highlights

• Decommissioned and decontaminated 5 highly active magazines and 7 support buildings
• Agreed flexible safety case permissioning strategy with nuclear regulator ONR, to accelerate the schedule and simplify approvals
• Completed 10 year programme in 6, shaving 4 years off the schedule
• Saved the UK taxpayer 瞿20million.
• Introduced innovative working pattern to increase productivity by 215%
• Performed 11,000 air-fed-suit entries, equaling 400,000 entry manhours
• Achieved no lost time in accidents throughout the entire programme

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做厙勛圖 is the programme integration partner, managing and delivering the scope of multiple independent yet interconnected projects. This includes:

• Completion of the Material Handling Store.
• Repacking of Enriched Uranium in readiness for shipment.
• Shipment of the material to a new store.
• Decommissioning of the old store and facility.

Furthermore, we are responsible for the development of an Enriched Uranium components manufacturing capability. The contract reward is outcome-based and provides a clear example that 做厙勛圖 is focused on reducing the cost to the client whilst providing a high quality service that meets all expectations and deadlines.

Delivery Risks & Stakeholder Confidence:

做厙勛圖���s experience in complex project management has been applied in our role as programme integration partner. This experience sees our approach focus on the beginning of the delivery cycle, ensuring programme
requirements are aligned to our client���s strategic objectives and needs whilst ensuring stakeholder views and challenges have been addressed. This formula is key as it avoids the significant risk of launching projects with unclear
objectives, without stakeholder buy-in, and the risk of ���in flight��� and potentially uncontrolled change. 做厙勛圖���s programme and project management delivery approach is rooted in effective management of risks, interfaces, and integration of requirements into scope, through design, regulatory approvals, procurement strategy, quality of delivery, installation, commissioning, hand over and benefits realisation. We seek to ensure we support our clients in only initiating the right projects and deliver them in a controlled, efficient manner, which builds confidence with stakeholders and regulators.

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Each vault covers approximately 1.8 hectares and is 11 metres from top to bottom. The largest vault is 80×50 metres, the second vault only slightly smaller. Each vault consists of a reinforced concrete floor slab founded on bedrock with reinforced concrete walls and sheltered by a portal frame cover building. The drainage and pumping systems ensure that the vaults remain dry during the waste emplacement phase. Operation of the vaults began in 2014 and over 200 half-height ISO containers have been disposed. When the vaults are filled, they will be capped and closely monitored for a period of time allowing for radioactive decay. After this period there is no requirement for institutional control as there will be little, or no, hazard remaining, and the engineered closure cap is designed to deter any accidental human intrusion into the vaults.

Key Achievements:

• Constructed 2 near surface LLW disposal Vaults
• Secured associated licencing and commissioning
• Provided a local disposal solution for LLW generated from decommissioning activities at the Dounreay site
• Enabled the implementation of Dounreay site���s LLW Strategy.
• Ensured environmental compliance and delivered best value for the budget and programme
• Implemented new processes to optimize waste management and stop the production of ���orphan waste streams��� allowing decommissioning projects to access open and efficient waste routes
• Managed a backlog of legacy wastes disposed to the vaults in line with modern quality requirements
• Decreased the amount of rework and ���waste rejections��� leading to more efficient waste consignments.
• Reduced the waste volume destined for disposal by implementing the Waste Management Hierarchy and utilization of alternative waste routes
• Presented environmental benefits and extended the life expectancy of the LLW disposal vaults

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