Five Acidic Drums Stored at WCS Linked to Breached WIPP Drum

The Department of Energy is scrutinizing five additional Los Alamos waste drums currently stored at Waste Control Specialists that are “highly acidic” and from the same waste stream as the breached drum discovered in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,…

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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 […]