No, really.
It all started in the 1950s, when the U.S. government built five nuclear reactors at a site in the South to make weapons-grade plutonium.
Producing plutonium also produces radioactive waste. Though the reactors were decommissioned decades ago, the waste remains radioactive and requires careful professional handling.
Fast forward to 2012. A U.S. Department of Energy contractor that specializes in management of legacy radioactive liquid waste approached GPM with a challenge other companies might have dismissed as impossible: come up with an efficient, cost-effective way to mix million-gallon tanks of nuclear liquid and sludge to uniform density.
With only a 22.5 inch port for access.
Here’s how we solved it.
