Waste Disposition News

A group of employees in yellow and white hazmat suits using a glovebox machine
The Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos recently resumed preparation of certain legacy transuranic waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
Workers stand beside a large white machine with a metal pipe sticking out of it
The cleanup contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management at the Idaho National Laboratory Site recently met its fiscal year 2024 milestone of transferring 10 spent nuclear fuel baskets from first-generation vaults to second-generation storage vaults ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline.
A GIF of rotating images of the Hanford K Basin nuclear facility
Hanford Site workers just finished draining the last large basin that used to hold uranium fuel rods from nuclear reactors. Crews pumped out nearly 1 million gallons of contaminated water from the K West Reactor basin.