In April, 2000, Los Alamos established a Program Office in Carlsbad, New Mexico to support the nation's only operating deep geologic repository for nuclear and mixed nuclear waste, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The ongoing mission of the Program Office is to provide senior technical expertise for transuranic (TRU) waste characterization, transportation certification for WIPP and DOE generator sites across the weapons complex, and for the study of radionuclide interactions in the WIPP repository environment.
The program office in Carlsbad is funded by DOE's Environmental Management Office to provide technical support directly to the DOE Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) and is staffed by approximately 40 employees responsible for a diverse scope of work supporting WIPP and the National Transuranic Waste Program (NTP).
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