With 2018 Deadline Looming, Idaho Lab Moving TRU Waste to WIPP

The Idaho National Laboratory sent 66 of the first 102 shipments of transuranic waste to the reopened Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, according to data posted online as of Nov. 22. The update arrived as the Energy Department works to comply with an agreement…

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SRS resumes shipping remote-handled TRU waste to WIPP

The Department of Energy has sent its first shipment of remote-handled transuranic waste since 2009 from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) using a new shipping container. Remote-handled waste is more radioactive… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]