Complete reconstruction
According to Sogin, the ERSBA 1 storage facility is now undergoing a full-scale overhaul, as part of a broader effort to improve long-term waste handling efficiency and optimize site operations.
The work on the structure – 164 feet (50 meters) long, 98 feet (30 meters) wide, and about 20 feet (6 meters) high – involves the demolition of the roof, the concrete walls, and the foundations, followed by the construction of a new storage facility on the same site, with a volume similar to that of the dismantled building.
“Once civil engineering work is complete, two overhead cranes will be installed inside for the handling of waste containers and plant systems,” the enterprise says.
In total, approximately 3,400 tons of material are slated for removal. Sogin estimates that around 88 percent of this material will be cleared for unrestricted use following thorough treatment and decontamination processes. The remaining 12 percent will be classified as radioactive waste and retained on-site until a national repository becomes available for final disposal.
“Upgrading these three facilities eliminates the need to build new temporary storage structures on-site,” the Italian company explained in a statement. “They will house both legacy radioactive waste and the waste generated during decommissioning activities, pending their transfer to the National Repository once it becomes available.”
Sailors’ 400-year logbooks help scientists track Earth’s ghostly glowing seas
Nearly 60 per cent of the 240 recorded milky-sea events flare in one Arabian Sea corridor.
Researchers at Colorado State University (CSU) and NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere have compiled the most complete record to date of the ocean’s rare “milky seas” — vast, steady glows that can blanket more than 38,610 square miles (100,000 km²) of water for weeks.
The open database merges 240 credible eyewitness accounts dating back to the 1600s with modern low-light satellite imagery, giving scientists their first real opportunity to forecast where and when the phenomenon will next appear.
240 events, one hotspot
Analysis shows that almost 60 per cent of all documented displays occurred in a triangle bounded by Somalia, Yemen’s Socotra Island, and the Maldives. A second cluster spans Indonesia’s Java and Banda Seas.
The team also found a clear statistical link between milky-sea sightings and two major climate oscillations: the Indian Ocean Dipole and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation. When those patterns push warm, nutrient-rich surface water into the region, the odds of a glow rise sharply.
A glow bright enough to read by
Milky seas differ from plankton’s flickering blue pinpoints on many coastlines. Instead, they emit a uniform white or pale-green light, bright enough to read a logbook by and sometimes visible from space.
The leading suspect is Vibrio harveyi, a luminous bacterium that colonises algae. When bacterial numbers cross a critical threshold, they switch on in unison, a process called quorum sensing. Yet direct evidence is scant: only one research vessel sampled a milky sea in 1985.
“It’s hard to study something you can’t find,” said lead author Justin Hudson, a PhD candidate in CSU’s Department of Atmospheric Science. “Our archive should let expeditions steer to a target while the glow is still active and finally collect the biology and chemistry we need.”
From folklore to forecast
Co-author Professor Steven Miller has tracked the glows from orbit for a decade. “Sailors have described these waters since the 17th century, but we’ve lacked a way to bridge folklore and physics,” he said.
The new dataset, which includes entries from the Marine Observer journal and century-old merchant-ship logs, gives modelers time-stamped positions and weather notes that can be cross-checked against satellite detections.
Complete reconstruction
According to Sogin, the ERSBA 1 storage facility is now undergoing a full-scale overhaul, as part of a broader effort to improve long-term waste handling efficiency and optimize site operations.
The work on the structure – 164 feet (50 meters) long, 98 feet (30 meters) wide, and about 20 feet (6 meters) high – involves the demolition of the roof, the concrete walls, and the foundations, followed by the construction of a new storage facility on the same site, with a volume similar to that of the dismantled building.
“Once civil engineering work is complete, two overhead cranes will be installed inside for the handling of waste containers and plant systems,” the enterprise says.
In total, approximately 3,400 tons of material are slated for removal. Sogin estimates that around 88 percent of this material will be cleared for unrestricted use following thorough treatment and decontamination processes. The remaining 12 percent will be classified as radioactive waste and retained on-site until a national repository becomes available for final disposal.
“Upgrading these three facilities eliminates the need to build new temporary storage structures on-site,” the Italian company explained in a statement. “They will house both legacy radioactive waste and the waste generated during decommissioning activities, pending their transfer to the National Repository once it becomes available.”
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Sailors’ 400-year logbooks help scientists track Earth’s ghostly glowing seas
Nearly 60 per cent of the 240 recorded milky-sea events flare in one Arabian Sea corridor.
Researchers at Colorado State University (CSU) and NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere have compiled the most complete record to date of the ocean’s rare “milky seas” — vast, steady glows that can blanket more than 38,610 square miles (100,000 km²) of water for weeks.
The open database merges 240 credible eyewitness accounts dating back to the 1600s with modern low-light satellite imagery, giving scientists their first real opportunity to forecast where and when the phenomenon will next appear.
240 events, one hotspot
Analysis shows that almost 60 per cent of all documented displays occurred in a triangle bounded by Somalia, Yemen’s Socotra Island, and the Maldives. A second cluster spans Indonesia’s Java and Banda Seas.
The team also found a clear statistical link between milky-sea sightings and two major climate oscillations: the Indian Ocean Dipole and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation. When those patterns push warm, nutrient-rich surface water into the region, the odds of a glow rise sharply.
A glow bright enough to read by
Milky seas differ from plankton’s flickering blue pinpoints on many coastlines. Instead, they emit a uniform white or pale-green light, bright enough to read a logbook by and sometimes visible from space.
The leading suspect is Vibrio harveyi, a luminous bacterium that colonises algae. When bacterial numbers cross a critical threshold, they switch on in unison, a process called quorum sensing. Yet direct evidence is scant: only one research vessel sampled a milky sea in 1985.
“It’s hard to study something you can’t find,” said lead author Justin Hudson, a PhD candidate in CSU’s Department of Atmospheric Science. “Our archive should let expeditions steer to a target while the glow is still active and finally collect the biology and chemistry we need.”
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From folklore to forecast
Co-author Professor Steven Miller has tracked the glows from orbit for a decade. “Sailors have described these waters since the 17th century, but we’ve lacked a way to bridge folklore and physics,” he said.
The new dataset, which includes entries from the Marine Observer journal and century-old merchant-ship logs, gives modelers time-stamped positions and weather notes that can be cross-checked against satellite detections.