Component and processes that enabled los alamos national laboratory to shiptransuranic waste to wipp or what it took to smooth the final speed bumps on the road to wipp

摘要

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) sent the historic first load of transuranic(TRU) waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) on March 25, 1999. The cheers of supporters and the groans of protesters that night marked the end of the last two years in the effort to open the world's first permitted TRU waste disposal site. This paper documents the more significant events that occured in the two years prior to LANL's first shipment to WIPP. In addition, a chronology is provided with further details of the drama associated with LANL's historic first shipment.