Report: Los Alamos to end on-site radioactive waste disposal
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) – A new report says Los Alamos National Laboratory will stop the disposing of low-level radioactive waste on site by October 2017.
The Los Alamos Monitor reports that the environmental report says the lab will end on-site radioactive waste disposal at the storage compound known as Area G. That’s the lab’s largest disposal area.
The lab was shipping the low-level waste from Area G to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad. That stopped when an improper
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