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Savannah River Site Completes Deactivation in Building Used to Produce Fuel for Space Program
September 23, 2022
AIKEN, South Carolina, Sept. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release:

Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) Workers at the Savannah River Site have completed deactivation of a former material storage building containing residual hold-up of plutonium (Pu)-238 oxide, once used to power deep space missions.

The two-story, blast-resistant, windowless, reinforced concrete building, known as Building . . .

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