The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., received 29 shipments of defense-related transuranic waste during October, according to figures posted on the facility’s public website.
There were 24 shipments from the Idaho National Laboratory, four from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and one from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. That is below the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s (WIPP) total for October 2023 when the salt mine took in 36 shipments.
Shipments are recorded on the public website about two weeks after the fact.
During the first 10 months of 2024, WIPP has received 405 shipments, according to the DOE website. That is slightly below the 2023 pace when WIPP received 411 shipments.
The top managers for DOE and its WIPP prime said recently the rate of shipments is leveling off some as much of the remaining defense-related transuranic waste still needs to be dug up, packaged or certified before it can be disposed of at the underground salt mine.
NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)
DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.
by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.
Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮
We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.
Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓