The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Off-Site Source Recovery Program (OSRP) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) received the 2018 Richard S. Hodes, M.D. Honor Lecture Award on Monday, March 19, 2018 in recognition of the program’s innovative efforts in solving low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) management challenges in the United States by:
- Successfully completing the design, testing and certification of two new Type-B transportation containers to alleviate a shortage of containers that significantly limited the recovery and disposal of commercially licensed sealed sources and
- Providing the certified designs to qualified private sector entities to use or modify them to develop containers for commercial use, thereby encouraging and facilitating the development of additional commercial capacity.