View documents and correspondence related to the suspension, inspection and eventual resuming of CH TRU waste shipments from LANL to WIPP.

Learn more about this incident on the WIPP News Archive web page.

• Letter from EPA to DOE stating that there was a violation of the system of controls in place at the LANL (PDF)(3 pp, 184 K)
  This letter shares EPA's plans to investigate the violation related to the shipment at LANL.
• Letter from DOE to EPA in response to a 6/11/08 phone call regarding a LANL drum shipment (PDF)(6 pp, 127 K)
  This letter is in response to a 6/11/08 phone call regarding a LANL drum characterized and shipped by the Central Characterization Project (CCP) with an unresolved Non-Conformance Report (NCR).
• Letter from EPA to DOE regarding the drum of TRU that was emplaced at WIPP from the CCP at LANL (PDF)(4 pp, 276 K)
  LANL errant drum-continued moratorium on shipping
• Letter from DOE to EPA in response to an EPA letter dated 7/14/08 related to the shipment of LANL Drum LAS817174 (PDF)(76 pp, 3 MB)
  This letter addresses the shipment of Los Alamos National Laboratory drum LAS817174.
• Letter from EPA to DOE addressing the request for resumption of shipments from LANL (PDF)(2 pp, 98 K)
  This letter is DOE's response regarding resumption of shipments from LANL.
• Letter from EPA to DOE regarding a follow-up inspection at LANL. (PDF)(2 pp, 131 K)
  This letter addresses resumption of shipments to WIPP from LANL
• WIPP Waste Information System: Waste Container Data Report (Container LAS817174) (PDF)(5 pp, 41 K)
  This is the waste data report for drum LAS817174.
• WIPP Waste Information System: Waste Container Data Report (Container LASB00411) (PDF)(5 pp, 43 K)
  This is the waste data report for drum LASB00411.
• Central Characterization Project for Los Alamos National Laboratory TA-50 Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility Homogenous Inorganic Solids (PDF)(128 pp, 935 K)
  This document has been prepared for the Central Characterization Project (CCP) for contact-handled (CH) transuranic (TRU) waste generated at the Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility (RLWTF) in Technical Area (TA)-50 of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) generated between 1979 and 2000.
• Real Time Radiography Report (RTR) Batch Data Report (PDF)(64 pp, 5 MB)
  This is the real time radiography report.
• Visual Examination Batch Data Report (PDF)(69 pp, 7 MB)
  This is the visual examination batch report.
• CCP Nonconformance Report (PDF)(9 pp, 186 K)
  This is the nonconformance report.
• Characterization Information Summary WSPF # LA-MIN03-NC-001 (PDF)(17 pp, 3 MB)
  This document is the Characterization Information Summary.