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 storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet (660 m) underground in a salt ...

2025年1月13日 · The United States currently plans to bury about one third of this stockpile in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a geologic repository mined 650 meters below the surface of southeastern New Mexico’s Delaware Basin (NASEM 2020). Preparation to dispose of this material is well underway, but key questions about this approach remain unresolved.

2014年3月23日 · WIPP receives TRU wastes generated after 1970 and, therefore, represents only a partial solution to the United States military nuclear waste problem. Before 1970, more than 2,000 kilograms of plutonium were dumped into the ground as “low-level” waste at many locations across the country.

The federal government is developing plans to dilute and dispose of the majority of its weapons-grade surplus plutonium inventory in the United States’ only nuclear waste repository, changing the characteristics of the waste the facility was built for.

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 WIPP is the United States' only transuranic waste depository and plays a key role in managing the waste generated from nuclear weapon defense projects.

WIPP was constructed for the disposal of defense-generated transuranic (TRU) waste from DOE sites around the country. TRU waste consists of clothing, tools, rags, residues, debris, soil, and other items contaminated with plutonium and other man-made radioactive elements.

2014年4月29日 · The NNSA options study examines the option of disposing of the plutonium in WIPP, the geologic repository for transuranic waste in the salt beds near Carlsbad, New Mexico, and estimates it would cost around one-third of the MOX option (not counting the $5 billion that has already been wasted on the MOX program).

2022年8月18日 · 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, the WIPP repository is mined within a 2,000-foot-thick bedded-salt formation. The Underground (U/G) is 2,150 feet beneath the ground surface.

2025年1月13日 · The United States possesses a large stockpile of excess weapons plutonium. Following a failed attempt to bilaterally dispose of this material under an arms control agreement with Russia, the United States now plans to bury it at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a geologic repository in southeastern New Mexico.