Posted By Office of Public Affairs
For the fourth year in a row, Los Alamos National Laboratory’s TRU Waste Program has shipped a record number of transuranic (TRU) waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., for permanent disposal.
LANL’s 172nd shipment of TRU waste this year left Los Alamos bound for WIPP last week. With two months left in the fiscal year, LANL has already surpassed last year’s fiscal year record of 171 shipments. LANL has transported more than 1,000 shipments to WIPP since that facility opened in 1999.
Read more about the shipments [1].
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LANL’s 172nd shipment leaves the lab on Aug. 2, headed for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:14 am ET
