2025年1月13日 · WIPP was constructed for disposal of defense-generated TRU waste from DOE sites around the country. TRU waste consists of clothing, tools, rags, residues, debris, soil and other items contaminated with small amounts of plutonium and …

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years.

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico, is being operated to provide disposal of radioactive wastes resulting from the defense activities and programs of the United States.

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is the nation’s only repository for the disposal of transuranic waste generated by atomic energy defense activities. WIPP is located 33 miles southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, in the Chihuahuan Desert, far from major population centers.

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the nation's only deep geologic long-lived radioactive waste repository. Located 26 miles southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, WIPP permanently isolates defense-generated transuranic (TRU) waste …

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, safely disposes of the nation’s defense-related transuranic radioactive waste. Located in the Chihuahua Desert, outside Carlsbad, N.M., WIPP began disposal operations in March 1999.WIPP is a U.S. Department of Energy facility and is managed by Washington TRU Solutions.

Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC (NWP) is a Amentum-led entity with partner BWXT and major subcontractor ORANO. We manage and operate the U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in southeast New Mexico.

WIPP is located 33 miles southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, in the Chihuahuan Desert. WIPP is the nation’s only deep geologic repository for the disposal of transuranic (TRU) waste generated by atomic energy defense activities.

The State of New Mexico’s authority to regulate the hazardous waste at WIPP is governed under the New Mexico Hazardous Waste Act (HWA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Under RCRA, the State of New Mexico is authorized to operate in lieu of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); EPA does not regulate radioactive mixed ...

WIPP is the nation’s only repository for the disposal of nuclear waste known as transuranic, or TRU, waste. It consists of clothing, tools, rags, residues, debris, soil and other items contaminated with small amounts of plutonium and other man-made radioactive elements.