Nuclear Waste
updated 06/19/12

Los Alamos Nuclear Waste
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has disposed at least 17,500,000 ft³ of hazardous and radioactive wastes on-site at twenty-four different officially-designated material disposal areas (MDAs) since 1944.

LANL continues to generate and dispose of radioactive waste on-site at a facility called "Area G," which is the largest MDA (63 acres) and contains the most waste (10,800,000 ft³; enough to fill 1.4 million 55-gallon drums). LANL would like to expand MDA-G by 66 acres, more than doubling its size. Several small Indian ruins lie in the expansion path.

Resources on Nuclear Waste stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico include:

• in depth information, maps, and photographs of Material Disposal Areas (MDAs) at LANL
• contaminated sites at LANL, and
• How to clean up Los Alamos - Sept 8, 2004, by Greg Mello
• Selected Likely Key Issues in the Anticipated TA-54 Low-Level Waste Disposal Performance Assessment for Los Alamos National Laboratory - Jan 25, 2006
• Expansion of LANL Waste Disposal: Lots of Mostly New-Made Waste - Jan 25, 2006
• Sustained Disapproval, print media history of Technical Area 54, Material Disposal Area G, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1992 - 2006.