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Nuclear Waste
updated 5 Nov 2024
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Recent news media
• New pit waste, some older waste excluded from ‘legacy’ transuranic definition, Exchange Monitor, Nov 5, 2024
• Yucca alive in House committee; Dem leader prefers interim storage; another lawmaker says action on spent fuel could take til after election, Exchange Monitor, Apr 12, 2024
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New Mexico says not so fast to shipments of stranded transuranic waste to WIPP from WCS, Exchange Monitor, Mar 29, 2024
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Dilute and dispose looks to boost shipments to WIPP this year, Exchange Monitor, Mar 15, 2024
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Economic development plays big role in Waste Management sessions, Exchange Monitor, Mar 15, 2024
• New Mexico issues $420,000 in fines over improper waste storage at LANL, Santa Fe New Mexican, Mar 4, 2024
• Idaho on pace to ship legacy waste to WIPP by 2032, Exchange Monitor, Feb 22, 2024
• New WIPP permit prioritizes legacy waste over incoming flood from pit production, Exchange Monitor, Jun 30, 2023
• SRS-to-WIPP down-blended waste shipments get rolling, Exchange Monitor, Apr 21, 2023
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Energy Department: Cap rather than clean up Los Alamos lab waste site, (with comment by Greg Mello), Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 31, 2021
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ISP Interim Storage Site Passes NRC Review; Final Licensing Decision by September, Exchange Monitor, Jul 30, 2021
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Los Alamos NNSA Shipments to WIPP Still Suspended, Exchange Monitor, Jun 17, 2021
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First Biden DOE Budget Request Would Keep Nuclear Cleanup at Flat $7.6B, Exchange Monitor, May 28, 2021
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Decision on WIPP Shaft Could Occur in 4th Quarter, Exchange Monitor, May 28, 2021
• New Mexico weighs changes to permit for nuclear waste dump, Associated Press, May 24, 2021
• ‘Next steps’ for nuclear waste storage strategy teased by energy secretary, Aiken Standard, May 20, 2021
• LANL’s Area G Under Standing Order Restricting Operations To Essential Activities, Los Alamos Reporter, May 20, 2021
• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Takes On 97 Projects In Two-Month Maintenance Outage, Los Alamos Reporter, Apr 20, 2021
• WIPP Central Characterization Project Is Lynchpin For Characterization Of Radioactive Waste Received From LANL, Other DOE Sites, Los Alamos Reporter, Mar 24, 2021
• NNSA Says No Injuries, Contamination During February 26 Incident At LANL Plutonium Facility, Los Alamos Reporter, Mar 17, 2021
• New Mexico demands more of US when addressing nuclear waste, Associated Press, Mar 14, 2021
• First Shipments Of DOE-EM Transuranic Waste From LANL’s RANT Facility Head To WIPP, Los Alamos Reporter, Oct 27, 2020
• County Council Requests Briefing From Department Of Energy On DP Road Situation, LANL Site Plan And More, Los Alamos Reporter, Oct 20, 2020
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Safety Board Voices Concerns To DOE About Safety Bases For Transuranic Waste Storage At LANL, Los Alamos Reporter, Oct 9, 2020
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Potential Energetic Chemical Reaction Events Involving Transuranic Waste, DNFSB/TECH-46, Sep 29, 2020
• Post-WIPP Disposal ‘Far and Away’ Biggest TRU Waste Challenge for NNSA Pit Mission, Official Says, Exchange Monitor, Sep 10, 2020
• Plutonium deal a step in the right direction, editorial, Charleston Post & Courier, Sep 1, 2020
• The U.S. is considering revamping its nuclear weapons program. What does this mean for WIPP?, New Mexico Political Report, Jun 24, 2020
• NMED Tells DOE Widespread Waste At DP Road Represents Substantial Risk To Human Health, Environment, Los Alamos Reporter, Jun 18, 2020
• Will the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad store nuclear waste until 2052?, Carlsbad Current Argus, Jan 31, 2020
• WIPP nuclear waste facility to pause operations, Associated Press, Jan 30, 2020
• The Long Fight to Clean Up America’s Cold War Nuclear Waste, Popular Mechanics, Dec 10, 2019
• Lethal Legacy, The US wants to bury SC’s plutonium stockpile forever. Its new home isn’t sure it wants it, part three, The Post and Courier, Nov 23, 2019
• DOE: Half of WIPP waste shipments expected to come from Idaho lab, Albuquerque Journal, Nov 19, 2019
• LANL to face fines over violations, Los Alamos Monitor, Sep 30, 2019
• Lethal Legacy, How the US government wasted $8 billion and stranded tons of plutonium in South Carolina, part two, The Post and Courier, Sep 28, 2019
• WIPP: DOE’s four goals for the next five years, Carlsbad Current Argus, Sep 16, 2019
• 9 LANL waste containers denied shipment to WIPP, Los Alamos Monitor, Sep 1, 2019
• Lethal Legacy, Why SC is likely stuck with a stockpile of the nation’s most dangerous nuclear materials, part one, The Post and Courier, Jul 6, 2019
• NNSA Starts Review of Dilute-and-Dispose Plan for WIPP, Exchange Monitor, Apr 19, 2019
• WIPP: Shipments from LANL to grow, Albuquerque Journal,Apr 22, 2019
• LANL: Waste Shipment Successfully Completed At WIPP, Los Alamos Daily Post, Apr 19, 2019
• US underground nuclear waste dump explained, Associated Press, Mar 23, 2019
• First-of-its-kind US nuclear waste dump marks 20 years, Associated Press, Mar 23, 2019
• WIPP: Volume tracking change approved by Environment Department, Carlsbad Current Argus, Jan 2, 2019
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LANL slapped with fines, Los Alamos Monitor, Nov 13, 2018
• Editorial: WIPP report details string of management mistakes, Albuquerque Journal, Apr 20, 2015
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Los Alamos Nuclear Waste
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has disposed at least 17,500,000ft3 of hazardous and radioactive
wastes on-site at twenty-four different officially-designated material
disposal areas (MDAs) since 1944.
LANL continues to generate and dispose of radioactive waste on-site
at a facility called "Area G," which is the largest MDA (63 acres) and contains the most waste
(10,800,000 ft3; enough to fill
1.4 million 55-gallon drums). LANL would like to expand
MDA-G by 66 acres, more than doubling its size. Several small
Indian ruins lie in the expansion path.
Resources on Nuclear Waste stored at LANL include:
• DOE Submittal Corrective Action Measures, LANL MDA-C, Jun 30, 2021
• Jonathan Plaue, DNFSB LANL resident inspector, presentation, Oct 1,2020
• Potential Energetic Chemical Reaction Events Involving Transuranic Waste, DNFSB/TECH-46, Sep 29, 2020
• "Draining the Nuclear Swamp," LASG Special Report, Roger Snodgrass, May 3, 2019
• In depth information, maps,
and photographs of Material Disposal
Areas (MDAs) at LANL
• Contaminated sites at LANL, and
• How to clean up Los Alamos,Greg Mello, Sep 8, 2004
• Selected Likely Key Issues in the Anticipated TA-54 Low-Level Waste Disposal Performance Assessment for Los Alamos National Laboratory - Jan 25, 2006
• Expansion of LANL Waste Disposal: Lots of Mostly New-Made Waste - Jan 25, 2006
• Sustained Disapproval, print media history of Technical Area 54, Material Disposal Area G, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1992 - 2006
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) Newsletters & Accident Investigation Reports
• DOE EM newsletters (most of the 2019 editions are focused on WIPP)
• Radiological Release Event at WIPP, Feb 14, 2014
• Phase 1, Apr 22, 2014
• Phase 2, Apr 16, 2015
• Underground Salt Haul Truck Fire at WIPP, Feb 5, 2014
• Report: Mar 13, 2014
New Mexico Environment Department (NMED)
• Response to February 2014 Underground Salt Truck Fire and Radionuclide Release Events
NMED WIPP documents
• Monitoring data & reports
• Maps & photos
• Regulatory information
• Background information
DNFSB correspondence and reports
• WIPP maintenance issue report, Sep 24, 2018
Spent Nuclear Fuel
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Expert declarations of Robert Alvarez before the Atomic Safety & Licensing Board on the Application for a License for a Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility by Waste Control Specialists LLC ( Docket No. 72-1050)
• Oct 23, 2019
• Feb 23, 2019
• Nov 13, 2018
• Spent Power Reactor Fuel: Pre-Disposal Issues, Robert Alvarez, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, LASG, Apr 29, 2017 (posted Jul 28, 2017)
A few older fact sheets & ads generated by the Los Alamos Study Group on Area G & the disposal of radioactive waste
• Did You Know? There is a nuclear dump just 19 miles from the Santa Fe Plaza. It's called "Area G," Jun 1999
• Welcome to New Mexico, Land of Enchantment or World Capital of Nuclear Weapons and Waste?, 1997
• Los Alamos Plans New Radwaste Dump, Expansion of "Area G" Threatens to Further Desecrate Pajarito Plateau, Oct 21, 1993
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