[CPEO-MEF] Los Alamos (NM) waste re-packaging

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

LANL readies high-risk waste for relocation

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santa Fe New Mexican
August 1, 2006

LOS ALAMOS -- Los Alamos National Laboratory will repackage some 
plutonium-contaminated material destined for the federal government's 
radioactive-waste dump near Carlsbad.

The waste does not meet the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's "strict 
acceptance criteria," lab spokesman James Rickman said.

The lab said last week it was temporarily storing 300 to 400 drums of 
waste considered too radioactively hot to be repackaged at Los Alamos' 
current facilities. The lab plans to upgrade its repackaging facility 
this fall and is considering another building to prepare drums for 
shipping, federal oversight officials have said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/47241.html

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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>
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