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.
American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Status
AMWTP Workscope
DOE-Idaho Operations Office has directed ~$12 million of American Recovery And Reinvestment Act funds be spent at AMWTP to expedite retrieval, treatment and shipment of mixed low-level and low-level waste currently stored at the Department's Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project.
ARRA funds will be used to hire additional personnel who will accelerate the retrieval of stored and newly generated radioactive waste materials. Funds will also be used to demonstrate a new method for treating polychlorinated biphenyl contaminated waste (PCB).
Transparency is a key concept of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Click on the calendars below to see the type of activities that are taking place at AMWTP and funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Work funded by the ARRA supports DOE Idaho Operation's objective to ship 65,000 cubic meters of transuranic and mixed low level waste in compliance with the Idaho Settlement Agreement. Activities funded by this initial ~$12 million payment will be completed by Sept. 30, 2009.
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Another American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funded shipment of mixed low-level waste leaves ahead of schedule from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project.
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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.
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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.
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