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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.

U.S. Department of Energy Idaho Operations Office The U.S. Department of Energy is focused on removing stored transuranic waste from the state of Idaho and continuing to meet the milestones in the 1995 Settlement Agreement between the State of Idaho, the U.S. Navy and the DOE. With the support of Congress, state and local officials and the public, DOE will do all that is possible to achieve its goals. The workforce at the AMWTP understands that the safety and protection of the public and the environment is their most important objective. The work they do is difficult, the conditions are often challenging but they have proven to be up to the task. The people who work in the AMWTP, and all across this site, live in this community and we know full well that what we do here every day can directly affect our families, friends and neighbors and the places we call home. We are accordingly committed to do the best we can do to earn public trust and confidence and to support a premier National Laboratory. Sixty years after its humble beginnings, the Idaho National Laboratory is still solving the most complex energy, and national security issues facing our nation. We are making a difference and along the way, we are setting national standards for efficiency, safety and productivity. If you have questions for the Department of Energy about the work being accomplished at the AMWTP, or other Department of Energy managed work, I invite you to contact our public affairs department at 208 526-0833, or examine our web site at http://www.id.doe.gov/. Dennis M. Miotla Department of Energy Idaho Operations Office

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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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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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