The First Recovery Act Funded Waste Shipment departs from the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility

A shipment of mixed low-level waste left DOE’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project on May 6, years earlier than originally planned, due to funding received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The 36.5 cubic meter shipment consisted of radioactive and chemically contaminated waste that had been retrieved, characterized, packaged and shipped from the Department’s Idaho site. It will be treated and permanently disposed in a commercial disposal facility in Utah. ARRA funds for the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project are being used to accelerate the shipment of an additional 800 cubic meters of mixed low-level waste by Sept. 30, 2009.

Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project Employees standing in front of the first American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funded mixed low level waste shipment leaving DOE's Idaho Site. Click on image to enlarge

Editorial Date May 7, 2009
By Bradley Bugger