Los Alamos National Laboratory-Carlsbad Operations (LANL-CO) was established in 2000 as the senior technical advisor to the Department of Energy's Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) and National TRU Program in the area of transuranic (TRU) waste characterization and certification. CBFO manages the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad for the permanent disposal of TRU waste from the nation's nuclear weapons program.
LANL-CO became EES-12 in 2002. The office is staffed by more than 60 employees, including chemists, physicists, engineers, technicians, and support staff.
In 2008, LANL's Yucca Mountain Program Technical Coordination Office and the Carlsbad office were joined into a single group focused on repository science and operations, including the evaluation of potential deep geologic solutions for non-TRU waste.
For information on the milestone first LANL remote-handled transuranic waste shipment to WIPP, see:
Los Alamos National Laboratory-Carlsbad Operations (LANL-CO) was established in 2000 as the senior technical advisor to the Department of Energy's Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) and National TRU Program in the area of transuranic (TRU) waste characterization and certification. CBFO manages the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad for the permanent disposal of TRU waste from the nation's nuclear weapons program. 