The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Environment, and Resources Commission on Geosciences, National Research Council

National Academies Press, 1996

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Discusses the readiness of the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico, to serve as a geological repository for transuranic radioactive waste. WIPP is located in a Permian-age bedded salt deposit 658 meters below the surface.

ISBN-13
9780309054911
ISBN-10
0309054915
Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
1996
Publication date
1996-11-13
Pages
184
Dimensions
279x216x25
Weight
301