National Academies publishes report on disposal of surplus plutonium at WIPP
ECA Staff | 11/30/2018
Today, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) published an interim report evaluating the general viability of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE-NNSA’s) conceptual plans for disposing of 34 metric tons of surplus plutonium in WIPP, a deep geologic repository near Carlsbad, New Mexico.
This report evaluates DOE-NNSA’s plans to ship, receive, and emplace surplus plutonium in WIPP and its understanding of the impacts of these plans on WIPP and WIPP-bound waste streams. This report, the first of two to be issued during this study, provides a preliminary assessment of the general viability of DOE-NNSA’s conceptual plans, focusing on some of the barriers to their
implementation.
Read the National Academies' press release on the interim report here.
Read the full report here.
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