{"id":65260,"date":"2020-01-17T11:53:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/nuclear-waste-dump-in-n-m-takes-in-first-large-shipment-in-years\/"},"modified":"2020-01-17T18:53:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:53:35","slug":"nuclear-waste-dump-in-n-m-takes-in-first-large-shipment-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/nuclear-waste-dump-in-n-m-takes-in-first-large-shipment-in-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear waste dump in N.M. takes in first large shipment in years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The shipment using a special large cask known as a Transuranic Package Transporter Model 3, or TRUPACT-III, came from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The large casks are 14 feet tall, more than 8 feet square and weigh about 25 tons. That\u2019s more than double the weight of the containers typically used to ship to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.<\/p>\n<p>The larger containers accelerate the pace of cleanup at federal sites across the U.S. Energy Department\u2019s complex and reduces safety risks to workers, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>To get the equipment in working order again, officials said an automated transporter that the cask rides atop was overhauled, and workers were retrained in its use. A payload transfer station where large boxes are pulled from the cask and transferred to a pallet for processing also was repaired.<\/p>\n<p>The first TRUPACT-III came to the repository in 2011 \u2013 a dozen years after the facility opened to begin taking the nation\u2019s defense-related waste. TRUPACT-III shipments were halted after a truck fire and unrelated radiological release forced the temporary closure of the repository in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shipment using a special large cask known as a Transuranic Package Transporter Model 3, or TRUPACT-III, came from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The large casks are 14 feet tall, more than 8 feet square and weigh about 25 tons. That\u2019s more than double the weight of the containers typically used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[138],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65260"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}