liquid radioactive wastes

Radioactive Leftovers In South Carolina, the Department of Energy is trying to dispose of more than 34 million gallons of liquid radioactive wastes from the manufacture of plutonium and other materials for nuclear bombs.

At the Savannah River Plant, near Aiken, S.C., The department has nearly completed a $1 billion plant at the Savannah River Plant near Aiken, S.C., to turn high-level liquid radioactive wastes into glass logs.

For example, at the Savannah River Site, a weapons plant near Aiken, S.C., the government spent more than $2 billion to build a factory that takes liquid radioactive wastes from aging tanks and turns them into a solid by mixing them with glass, which makes disposal easier.