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Hazardous Waste

Facility upgrades will facilitate repackaging and shipment of 'hotter' waste from Los Alamos to WIPP
September 20 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed much-anticipated upgrades to its transuranic waste repackaging facility.

Sealed sources leave the Hill, destined for WIPP
August 17 — In the first shipment since May 2003, fourteen 55-gallon drums of radioactive sealed sources were shipped from storage at Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) on Thursday, July 28.

Laboratory works on Romanian environmental site
July 18 — Researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Laboratory are collaborating with scientists from the Romanian Institute of Nuclear Research to assist the Romanian government in establishing an effective shallow-land disposal site for the disposition of low- and intermediate-level radioactive wastes. The proposed disposal site is located near the town of Cernavoda along the Danube River, in southeastern Romania.