The Commission (SECC) selected Savannah River Remediation LLC (SRR) to receive the 2020 Richard S. Hodes Award (Award) for developing and implementing a technical, regulatory, and engineering strategy to work with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the removal and treatment of liquid radioactive waste associated with reprocessing in a manner that allows its disposition as other than high-level waste.
“The primary strategic value of the SECC is that permanent disposal of low-level radioactive waste is preferable to storage,” Lanza said. “This value is exemplified by SRR as they successfully addressed a problem that was described by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control as ‘…the greatest environmental risk in the State of South Carolina.’”