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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 32 | Number 1 | January 1977 | Pages 88-91
Technical Paper | Materials in Waste Storage / Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31740
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The results from two test burials of high-level wastes, incorporated into nepheline syenite glass and buried in contact with groundwater for 15 yr, indicate that the nuclear wastes from fuel processing for a 30 000-MW(e) nuclear power industry could be incorporated into such glass and stored beneath the water table in the waste management area of Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories without harm to the environment.