Transuranic Waste

WIPP Beat Its Own Waste Emplacement Target for 2017

By Photo of Staff Reports

The Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., received 133 shipments of transuranic waste from around the DOE complex during 2017, exceeding its own target since resuming waste emplacement.
Last March, during a WIPP Town Hall meeting,…

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