Los Alamos Shipments to WIPP Held Up Temporarily Over Combustion Risk

By Wayne Barber

A risk of combustion linked to calcium prompted suspension in November of transuranic waste shipments from the U.S. Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant further south in New Mexico, according to the Defense Nuclear…

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