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A new plan for disposing of nuclear waste at USA s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant « nuclear-news

A new plan for disposing of nuclear waste at USA’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Carlsbad Current Argus 14th April 2021, A plan to build two new areas to dispose of nuclear waste began taking shape at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant after the U.S. Department of Energy published a report on the feasibility of adding an 11th and 12th waste panel to the underground nuclear waste repository. At WIPP, low-level transuranic (TRU) waste made up of equipment and materials radiated during nuclear activities is permanently emplaced in an underground salt deposit more than 2,000 feet underground. In its original design, WIPP was planned to have eight panels for such disposal, but much of that space wasrestricted and abandoned following an accidental radiological release in2014 that contaminated parts of the underground and led to a three-year

Competition on WIPP Operations Contract Starting Between Now and June, DOE Says - ExchangeMonitor

Competition on WIPP Operations Contract Starting Between Now and June, DOE Says - ExchangeMonitor
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New Mexico nuclear sites 10-year environmental cleanup plan outlined

Cleaning up the environment from nuclear activities across the U.S. will continue for at least another decade as the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) published its priorities for 2021 to 2031. The EM oversees operations at national laboratories and nuclear facilities across the nation, including three in New Mexico. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque were all expected to continue important projects in nuclear research, development and remediation through the next 10 years. In a letter from Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management William White included with the priorities, he said the Office achieved several milestones in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

WIPP: Restart of fan needed for worker safety at nuclear repository

Officials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant reported a “minimal” release of radioactive materials during a test of a ventilation fan and contended the fan could be used safely during maintenance operations at the nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad. The fan was decommissioned after an accidental radiological release in 2014 led to contamination of parts of the underground where waste is disposed of, and a three-year halt of WIPP’s primary operations. Restarting the fan was needed, officials said, to increase safety for workers by improving airflow to the underground. A four-hour test of the fan was conducted in January, and Sean Dunagan, president of Nuclear Waste Partnership – the primary operations contractor at WIPP – said the results showed any radiological risk from using the fan was negligible.

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