Sounds like they're thinking of Yucca Mountain, which is located on the Nevada
Test Range as a part of Nellis AFB.
Yucca Mountain has never become operational, thanks to being defunded by
Congress back in 2010.
I worked on some of the early parts of Yucca Mountain when they were first
boring tunnels in the mid 90s. They bored about 5 miles worth, I believe, and
those were used primarily for environmental studies. Much of what we were
doing was involved with data acquisition for things like temperature and
geological stability. There were a lot of people from the DOE and Sandia
around when I was there.
FWIW, there is a LLW disposal facility not far from Yucca Mountain in
Frenchmen's Flat. Without going into details, a good part of our low level
waste is incinerated here.
Dan who does not glow in the dark
On Oct 12, 2013, at 11:40 PM, Craig wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 20:28:17 -0700 Alex Chamberlain
> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 12, 2013 8:16 PM, "Craig" wrote:
>>>
>>> They have indeed suspended shipments of TRU (transuranic, meaning
>>> elements heavier than uranium) waste from TA-54 to the WIPP (Waste
>>> Isolation Pilot Project at Carlsbad, NM) because of the shutdown. I
>>> don't recall exactly what the level of wastes -- high or low -- being
>>> shipped to WIPP is.
>>
>> Interesting! The last thing I heard about WIPP was in reference to the
>> interesting research commissioned into how to mark the site so that
>> future humans N million years hence would be warned away from digging
>> there. I had no idea the site had actually been built.
>
> The Waste Isolation Pilot Project in Carlsbad is not the waste storage
> facility in Nevada, which is probably what you are thinking of. That
> site, I'm sure was intended to store high-level wastes (the really hot
> stuff left over from refueling an atomic fission power plant, for
> example).
>
>
> Craig
>
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