December 2019

Assessment of Radioactive Waste Management at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Interim Report

This assessment is in response to the Deputy Secretary of Energy’s July 9, 2019, memorandum directing the Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA) to undertake a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-wide assessment of the procedures and practices for packaging and shipping radioactive waste. The assessment activities focused on the performance of processes to characterize, package, and ship transuranic (TRU) waste as implemented at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) by the management and operating contractor, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), and Nuclear Waste Partnership, LLC (NWP).