AMWTP - ARRA Status

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project is committed to meeting all technical and regulatory requirements to safely retrieve, characterize, treat and package transuranic waste for shipment out of Idaho to permanent disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in
New Mexico.

AMWTP American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) News

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is an unprecedented effort to provide funding that will create, or save jobs in America. ARRA funding is also being used to pay for neglected challenges, or to accelerate work needing to be done. The U.S. Department of Energy recently directed $468 million of ARRA funding to its Idaho Site to create or save jobs and to accelerate environmental management cleanup work.

From the $468 million in ARRA funding, the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project will receive $30 million to be spent over the next three years: the first ~$12 million is to be used for defined activities by Sept. 30, 2009.

Transparency in how ARRA funds are being used is a fundamental part of this program. AMWTP will post information on this web page to provide the public with information and examples on how ARRA funds are being used to expedite the safe and compliant cleanup of DOE’s Idaho Site.

ARRA Funding Creating Cleanup Jobs At DOE’s Idaho Site

Idaho State Journal Article

The First ARRA Funded Mixed Low Level Waste Shipment Leaves Idaho

ARRA Creates Site Jobs

Have a question about AMWTP operations related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act? Submit it here.

To get more information about AMWTP's customer, visit the Department of Energy's homepage.

The Retrieval Enclosure, which houses 53,300 cubic meters of waste, is approximately the same length as an aircraft carrier, or equivalent to the size of four football fields.

The real-time radiography units used in the Characterization Facility to X-ray waste are powerful enough to see the filaments of a light bulb that is wrapped in coveralls, inside a plastic liner, inside a steel container.

Waste is transported to different areas of the Treatment Facility by an intricate system of conveyers and drum-handling robots so all waste handling is done remotely.

The three-story Supercompactor glovebox is one of the largest in the U.S. It was tested in Holland and then Nashville, Tennessee before being shipped to Idaho.

Waste shipped from AMWTP travels more than 1,300 miles to its final destination at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.

Search for current career opportunities and submit a résumé to AMWTP Human Resources.

Find out about the AMWTP Procurement department and processes.

The real time radiography units used in the Characterization Facility to X-ray waste are powerful enough to see the filaments of a light bulb that is wrapped in coveralls, inside a plastic liner, inside a steel container.



	Copyright 2007, AMWTP - Bechtel BWXT Idaho,LLC. All rights reserved.