Review of the Department of Energy's Plans for Disposal of Surplus Plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

by Division on Earth and Life Studies, Committee on Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, et al.

In 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued an Interim Report evaluating the general viability of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration's (DOE-NNSA's) conceptual plans for disposing of 34 metric tons (MT) of surplus plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a deep geologic repository near Carlsbad, New Mexico. It provided a preliminary assessment of the general viability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309498589
• ISBN13: 9780309498586
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.9"