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Over 100,000 square feet of buildings have been inactivated at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL).
Fuel storage pools at the Fluorinel Dissolution Process and Fuel Storage Facility (FAST) contains three million gallons of water. The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL).
The Waste Reduction Operations Complex (WROC) area has been home to four different reactors over the years. Today it houses the Power Burst Facility, Waste Engineering Development and Lead Storage Facility, Mixed Waste Storage Facility, and Waste Experimental Reduction Facility. The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL).
On March 31, 1999, the 25-mile trip to move the Three Mile Island-2 (TMI-2) spent fuel and core debris traveled todry storage at a mere 5 miles per hour. (Debris recovered from the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island-2 (TMI-2) reactor in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was initially transported to the INEEL in the mid-80s.
Aerial view of the Radioactive Waste Management Complex (RWMC). The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL).
In the past, random stacking was the best available disposal method for meeting as low as reasonably achievable ALARA goals. Here drums are being dumped into a hole at the INEEL's Pit 9 in 1969.
Photo taken in 1995. Stacks of drums containing TRU waste destined for shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
Crane-mounted, remotely controlled manipulators can remove buried containers from hazardous waste sites.
Drums containing transuranic waste will be vented and sampled using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. This method of headspace gas sampling reduces the cost of sample collection from approximately $1,000 a drum to $50 - $100 per drum.
October 17, 1996 - Idaho Senator Mike Crapo looks over plans at the Pit 9 building site near the Radioactive Waste Management Complex.

Photos Courtesy of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.