The Idaho Cleanup Project team recently celebrated 7,500 transuranic waste shipments from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
Office of Environmental Management
April 1, 2025
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Crews gather in front of the Idaho Cleanup Project’s 7,500th shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — The Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) team recently celebrated 7,500 transuranic waste shipments from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico — a feat resulting from careful planning, safe execution and coordination between the two sites.
“I am proud of our many dedicated and hardworking employees,” said Kelly Wooley, Waste Management senior project director for Idaho Environmental Coalition, ICP’s cleanup contractor. “This accomplishment would not be possible without them and our collaborative partnership with WIPP.”
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management and IEC manage the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP), where transuranic waste is characterized, treated, repackaged, certified and shipped to WIPP for emplacement in the underground waste repository. This work is performed under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and the 1995 Idaho Settlement Agreement between DOE and the state of Idaho. IEC will continue shipping the remaining balance of several thousand transuranic waste containers slated for disposal at WIPP. As many as 12 shipments leave AMWTP each week.
-Contributor: Carter Harrison
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