[CPEO-MEF] Los Alamos plutonium shipments

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lab ships plutonium sources to WIPP 

ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Monitor (NM)
August 19, 2005

Weapons-grade nuclear material recovered by Los Alamos National
Laboratory is on its way to the Waste Isolation Pilot Project in
Carlsbad. 

Fourteen steel drums of plutonium-239 left the Hill on July 28, the
first permanent reduction in the lab's brimming inventory of sealed
sources in more than two years.

"Finally, we're beginning to dispose of the sources we have recovered,"
said Lee Leonard, project leader for the lab's off-site source recovery
program. 
 
Only the Pu-239 sources that have been determined to be defense related
are eligible for disposal at WIPP.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2005/08/18/headline_news/news02.txt

-- 


Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@list.cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military