AMWTP Leadership - President's Message

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.

President’s Message

Jeffrey D. Mousseau, P.E. - President / General Manager

Welcome to the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project is committed to safely and compliantly retrieve, characterize, process, and package 65,000 cubic meters of transuranic nuclear waste and mixed low level waste for shipment to permanent disposal sites outside of Idaho. Bechtel BWXT Idaho manages and operates AMWTP for the Department.

Employees at AMWTP have safely shipped more transuranic waste out of Idaho than has been shipped from any other DOE site. We're proud of our work and the contract extensions our customer has provided through September 30, 2009.

Fundamental to our operations are the critically important roles of safety and regulatory compliance. Unsafe or noncompliant work will instantly shut down our operations and keep waste from leaving Idaho. Production is important, but it can not come at the cost of an injured worker, or anything less then full compliance with local, state and federal regulations.

Working with DOE, regulators, and stakeholders, we are several years ahead of the schedule contained in the Idaho Governor's Settlement Agreement to remove stored transuranic waste from Idaho. We are continuing to set the standard of excellence for processing radioactive waste in the DOE complex and keeping commitments and relationships with our neighbors and friends in Idaho.

Jeffrey D. Mousseau, P.E.
President and General Manager
Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LLC
Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project

Department of Energy

President’s Message

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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