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The Savannah River Site (SRS), located near Aiken, SC, is presently the nation’s primary source of nuclear materials for defense, space, medical, and energy applications. The site, which was built in the early 1950’s, comprises over 750 square kilometers of land with extensive support facilities. Nuclear materials produced at SRS are generated in heavy-water reactors by irradiating appropriate target materials with neutrons from uranium fuels and then chemically separating the products in two on-site processing plants.
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Hobbs, D.T., Walker, D.D. (1995). Chemical Pretreatment of Savannah River Site Nuclear Waste for Disposal. In: Schulz, W.W., Horwitz, E.P. (eds) Chemical Pretreatment of Nuclear Waste for Disposal. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2526-4_2
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