Status of the WIPP: A defense transuranic waste isolation facility

Conference · Mon Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1984 · J. Nucl. Mater. Manage.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5369923

Weart, W D

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a Department of Energy facility to dispose of defense transuranic wastes, and to serve as an ''underground laboratory'' for research on disposal concepts for defense high-level waste, will be constructed in the Delaware Basin salt beds of southeast New Mexico by December 1986, and begin accepting TRU waste in October 1988. Site validation was completed in March 1983 and underground excavation now consists of nearly four miles of drift, prototype disposal rooms and experimental areas for full scale, in situ experiments. Details of WIPP design, operation, site characterization and the in situ experiments are provided in this paper.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM 87185
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5369923
• Report Number(s): CONF-850765-
• Journal Information: J. Nucl. Mater. Manage.; (United States), Journal Name: J. Nucl. Mater. Manage.; (United States) Vol. 14:3; ISSN NUMMB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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