EM-Los Alamos

Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office team members are pictured in front of the 158th and final corrugated metal pipe before it is segmented.

The last shipment of soil and debris from the completed cleanup at the Middle DP Road Site leaves for an off-site, licensed disposal facility.

Workers place a container of legacy waste in the Universal Drum Assay and Segregation System at Technical Area 54 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the system is being demonstrated to more accurately analyze the radioactive contents in drums, especially transuranic waste content.

The low-head weir pictured is one of many stormwater controls that help prevent contaminated sediment from being transported downstream. Other types of controls include berms, detention basins and grade-control structures. All are included in an annual maintenance and inspection program.

Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos waste processing operators repackage materials from a legacy waste container to a new lined drum in a mock-up glovebag exercise with nonradioactive materials. Glovebags are flexible plastic containers that allow operators to use the inner gloves attached to the containers to safely handle transuranic waste inside the containers.

A corrugated metal pipe section is lifted with a gantry crane for placement into a standard waste box. Once loaded, the standard waste box is transferred to another room where it is decontaminated before it is moved outside of the PermaCon for interim storage, waste certification and shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos waste operations crew members prepare the first corrugated metal pipe (CMP) transuranic waste stream shipment for permanent disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Each TRUPACT, which is a special container, holds one standard waste box with one CMP section.