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About RH TRU wasteSince 1995, Los Alamos National Laboratory has had 16 canisters of remote-handled transuranic waste (RH-TRU) stored in vertical concrete shafts. The canisters each contain three, 55-gallon drums of tools, plastic, glassware, and rags used in hot cells during weapons research and production at the Laboratory’s Chemistry and Metallurgy Research building during the 1960s and 1970s. By law, the canisters must be sent for final disposal to the underground Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) repository near Carlsbad, New Mexico. On June 2nd, 2009, the Laboratory's first shipment of RH-TRU left for WIPP in a special, lead-lined shipping cask. On July 2nd, exactly one month later, the Laboratory shipped its 16th and final cask. The shipments are a key milestone in the Lab’s efforts to close Material Disposal Area G—the Lab’s primary waste storage area. |
News Releases7/6/2009, Final remote-handled waste canister leaves Los Alamos National Laboratory 6/3/2009, Milestone reached: First shipment of remote-handled TRU waste leaves Los Alamos 6/2/2009, Milestone Reached: Waste Shipment Leaves Los Alamos National Laboratory 10/17/2006, Lab readies for remote-handled transuranic waste shipments Video - Milestone Reached: Waste Shipment Leaves Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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