Travel to space is limited by the expense of transporting resources beyond Earth’s gravity well1. As a result, early metrics of usability for space systems, especially life support2, favored mass as the primary decision factor. Following a request to “provide the designers of future missions ...
majority (approximately two-thirds) of the costs for cleanup: the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site in Colorado; the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee; and the Hanford Site in Washington. ...
Hanford [86]; SRS has removed the geologic disposal in New Mexico of all of its legacy transuranic wastes, a removal process still ongoing at Hanford; and SRS has been vitrifying its highly radioactive liquid high-level reprocessing wastes since 1996, yet Hanford has not yet begun to ...