Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The site located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee was one of the former waste disposal areas for nuclear, toxic and hazardous wastes. Shallow waste trenches were excavated in the rock and contained the wastes. Groundwater migrating through the waste trenches would inevitably transport radioactive isotopes to the nearby waterways. The removal action project initiated was designed to encapsulate the wastes within 4 trenches thereby mitigating radioactive isotope migration into nearby waterways. A combination of the use of both solution and cementitious grouts was specified for the project.

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