
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant team members commemorate the first “cut” into Panel 11, the underground’s future waste disposal panel.
The safe management and disposition of waste is a critical part of EM’s mission. Our focus is to develop advanced strategies to optimize EM waste management projects and processes. Key areas of the waste management and disposition:
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- Waste Information Management System (WIMS) provided by Florida International University provides DOE with waste forecast data.
- National Directory of Brokers and Processors Directory is intended for use by compacts, states, federal agencies and others to provide information to generators seeking to treat, process and otherwise manage their waste in preparation for ultimate disposal.
- The Central Internet Database (CID) resulted from the implementation of the December 12, 1998 Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Settlement Agreement between DOE and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC et. al. v. Richardson, No.97-936(SS)(AK)).
- Greater-than-Class C Low-Level Radioactive Waste (GTCC LLW)
- Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility Federal Review Group (LFRG)