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Contact-handled transuranic waste is loaded into a shipping container.

DOE recently completed cleanup of legacy transuranic waste at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

A byproduct of the nation’s nuclear defense program, transuranic waste is safely and permanently disposed in rooms mined out of an ancient salt formation more than 2,100 feet below the surface at DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico.
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by ENERGY.GOV at https://www.flickr.com/photos/37916456@N02/7507794284. It was reviewed on 22 January 2013 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the United States Government Work.

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