Case Study
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Advantic Leads Design and Delivery of Emergency Response Composite Structure Challenge On February 14, 2014 a 55-gallon drum of contaminated material burst at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), releasing a small cloud of radioactive material. The event occurred deep within a stack of waste containers in the confined space of a disposal room carved into a geologic salt deposit nearly