Michael Baetz
7/22/99
Click on each Technical Area (TA) number for a brief summary of its
activities and waste production (1)
Technical Areas |
Activities (2) |
Type of Waste Generated
(3) |
Contains designated nuclear facilities?
(4) |
TA-0 |
Offsite facilities |
Unknown |
No |
TA-2 |
Omega West nuclear reactor |
Unknown |
No |
TA-3 |
Lab center, main technical area |
Chemical, Low Level Waste (LLW), Mixed LLW (MLLW) |
Yes (Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building, Sigma Complex) |
TA-5 |
Physical support facilities |
Unknown |
No |
TA-6 |
Mostly undeveloped |
Unknown |
No |
TA-8 |
Dynamic testing site |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
Yes (Radiographic Test Facility) |
TA-9 |
Explosives research |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
No |
TA-11 |
Explosives testing |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
No |
TA-14 |
Dynamic testing site |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
No |
TA-15 |
PHERMEX (5),
weapons testing, Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrotest Facility (DARHT) |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
No |
TA-16 |
Weapons Engineering Tritium Facility
(WETF), high explosives processing |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
Yes (WETF) |
TA-18 |
Nuclear materials studies |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
Yes (Los Alamos Critical Experiments
Facility) |
TA-21 |
Tritium fabrication & testing |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW, Transuranic waste
(TRU) |
Yes (Tritium Site Test Assembly &
Tritium Science and Fabrication Facility) |
TA-22 |
Detonator studies |
Unknown |
No |
TA-28 |
Explosives storage |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
No |
TA-33 |
High-pressure tritium lab |
Unknown |
Yes (Nonproliferation R&D) |
TA-35 |
Nuclear safeguards research |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
No |
TA-36 |
Explosives testing |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
No |
TA-37 |
Explosives storage |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
No |
TA-39 |
Non-nuclear weapons studies, shock wave physics |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
No |
TA-40 |
Detonator studies |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
No |
TA-41 |
Nuclear components R&D |
Unknown |
No |
TA-43 |
Biology/Genetics |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
Yes |
TA-46 |
Lasers/Photochemistry & Wastewater system |
Unknown |
No |
TA-48 |
Radiochemistry R&D |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
Yes (Radiochemistry Lab) |
TA-49 |
Historic underground subcritical tests and unknown current use |
Unknown |
No |
TA-50 |
Waste management |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW, TRU |
Yes (Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility & Waste Characterization,
Reduction, and Repackaging Facility) |
TA-51 |
Radwaste impact research |
Unknown |
No |
TA-52 |
Nuclear reactor performance & safety R&D |
Unknown |
No |
TA-53 |
Los Alamos Neutron Science Center |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW |
Yes (Isotope Production Facility) |
TA-54 |
Waste disposal and management |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW, TRU |
Yes (Area G, Radioassay and Nondestructive Testing Facility) |
TA-55 |
Plutonium Facility site, plutonium processing R&D |
Chemical, LLW, MLLW, TRU, Mixed TRU waste (MTRUW) |
Yes (Plutonium Building) |
TA-57 |
Astrophysics observatory and environmental research |
Unknown |
No |
TA-58 |
For future use |
No |
TA-59 |
Health & safety stuff |
No |
TA-60 |
Testing & rack assembly |
No |
TA-62 |
Experimental science |
No |
TA-63 |
Major growth area |
No |
TA-64 |
Hazardous Materials Response Team Headquarters |
No |
TA-66 |
Industrial partnership activities |
No |
TA-67 |
Environmental buffer |
No |
TA-68 |
Dynamic testing site |
No |
TA-69 |
Environmental buffer |
No |
TA-70 |
Environmental buffer |
No |
TA-71 |
Environmental buffer |
No |
TA-72 |
Firing range |
No |
TA-73 |
Los Alamos airport |
No |
TA-74 |
Water wells |
No |
Notes
1. Map is from Department of Energy,
Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS), V. I, January
1999, Figure 2.2.1- 1, p. 2-19.
2. Ibid., Table 2.2.1-1, p. 2-20. More
complete description of the technical areas can be found in LANL, SWEIS
Project Office, Environment, Safety, and Health Division, Description
of Technical Areas and Facilities at LANL, LA-UR-97-4275, 1997.
3. Ibid.,
Table 4.9.3.3-1, pg. 4-187.
4. LANL, SWEIS
Project Office, op. cit.
5. Pulsed High-Energy
Radiation Machine Emitting X-Rays.
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