Sentences with phrase «isolation pilot plant»

This committee will evaluate the general viability of the U.S. Department of Energy's conceptual plans for disposing of surplus plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, a shipment of nuclear waste arrives at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, near Carlsbad, N.M. U.S. Department of Energy, Carlsbad Field Office / AP hide caption

Facilities: Kansas City Plant Lawrence Livermore National Labs Los Alamos National Laboratory Nevada National Security Site Pantex Plant Sandia National Laboratories Savannah River Site Washington DC Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Y - 12 National Security Complex

This award followed a DOE decision to pull cleanup from LANL's prime contractor, Los Alamos National Security, after it sent an improperly prepared radioactive waste drum that ruptured underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Other articles in this issue discuss mining on indigenous lands, the expansion of uranium mining in New Mexico, and an excerpt from a report on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Over the past five years, Congress has appropriated more than $ 920 million for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), giving it even more money that Presidents Clinton and Bush requested.

In the next few weeks and throughout 2004, there will be several major activities related to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's first deep underground nuclear waste repository, located in southeastern New Mexico.

Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC) has been involved for more than 25 years with issues regarding the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).

As a result of SRIC's scientific analysis and legal actions, federal health and safety requirements were imposed on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), delaying its opening until 1999.

The world's only deep underground nuclear waste dump is in New Mexico, and efforts of many New Mexicans to prevent high - level waste disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) have had an effect on the state's decisions (page 5).

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), at the request of DOE regarding congressional appropriations provisions, has established a new committee on «Disposal of Surplus Plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.»

We discuss the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and the explosive nature of nuclear waste.

Other SRIC program updates are our nuclear waste safety work regarding the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and Louisiana Energy Services (LES) Uranium Enrichment Plant.

Even though federal laws limit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to be used only for defense transuranic (plutonium - contaminated) waste from nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed actions to expand WIPP to three additional missions in 2012 - 2013.

Problems at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, proposed site of the first high - level nuclear waste repository, and implications for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a military waste repository in New Mexico.

After more than 20 years of controversy, the first truck of radioactive garbage arrived at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's first nuclear waste repository, on March 26, 1999.

The option — mixing plutonium oxide with an inert material and disposal in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)-- would require modifying the PMDA and increasing the statutory capacity of WIPP (operations at WIPP are currently uncertain due to the February accidental radiation release).

The metal in the glove — used to protect those handling radiological materials such as plutonium — likely acted as a catalyst for a chemical reaction generating heat, said Wirth, chairman of the committee, which oversees the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

In February of that year, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)-- a nuclear facility in New Mexico — had an event in an underground storage area.

And even in the U.S., the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico currently stores waste from the production of nuclear weapons.

Located almost half a mile underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, protected from cosmic radiation, the sensitive EXO experiment uses 200 kilograms of enriched liquid xenon that could potentially undergo the sought - after decay.

Mine shafts at New Mexico's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant are carved into solid salt deep underground, blocking radiation from going in or out.

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where drums of radioactive refuse from nuclear weapons sites and laboratories are buried in salt caverns 2,100 feet (640 meters) underground, has...