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Monday, April 19, 2010

Tests show DOE waste meets state standards

By Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune/619 words/5 April 2010/The Salt Lake Tribune
SLTR/English
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Samples of the depleted uranium waste from a government cleanup in South Carolina show that it meets a key safety limit, said the Utah Department of Environmental Quality.
State regulators heard about the test results Monday from a Tennessee laboratory, which sampled 171 of the 5,400 drums sent most recently to Utah from the Savannah River Project cleanup for technetium-99, a waste product of reprocessing.