NOTE: You must first enter all radioactivity into their proper waste containers in the Radioactive Source Use and Waste workflow instructions in the Handbook. When no more waste will be added to a ...

GONE ARE THE DAYS when one could run even the smallest of reactions and dump the waste down the sink without a second thought. Increasing awareness of the safety and environmental hazards of dumping ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Top officials at one of the nation's premier federal laboratories say an extensive review has turned up violations in how the lab has handled hundreds of containers of radioactive ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have finished depressurizing four tritium waste containers that have been in storage since ...

All hazardous chemical waste containers must be labeled with the contents. Labels are available and instructions are listed on the back. Failure to list the contents can lead to a material becoming an ...

Four radioactive waste containers stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been successfully vented so they can be moved. The containers hold tritium waste, materials contaminated by a ...

Sep. 9—After years of pushback from advocacy groups, small amounts of radioactive gas can be released into the air as early as Saturday from waste containers stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The fourth and final flanged tritium waste container at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been depressurized, according to a Tuesday morning post on X from the New Mexico Environment Department. The ...