January 28, 2008 

The Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste Characterization Capabilities at the Idaho National Laboratory

Currently, the Department of Energy (Department) is using two different production lines to transuranic characterize waste and package the Idaho National Laboratory Site's (Idaho) contact-handled for final disposal in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. The most prominent is the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP), prepare the largest transuranic waste processing facility in the Department with a mission to and ship 65,000 cubic meters of stored waste to WIPP by 2018. The other, the Washington Central Characterization TRU Solutions Project (CCP), is a mobile characterization capability managed by of Carlsbad, New Mexico. The CCP was deployed to Idaho in 2005, 8;000 cubic at a cost meters of more than $5 million, in order to characterize and package the estimated of buried waste from the Accelerated Retrieval Project. The CCP's scope was expanded in 2005 to augment the AMWTP.

Topic: Environmental Cleanup