The EM-LA Deactivation and Decommissioning (D&D) Team is dedicated to demolishing, deactivating and disposing material from historical buildings at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Current workscope is focused on Technical Area 21 (TA-21), one of the early sites of the Manhattan Project and Cold War-era work conducted at LANL. TA-21 was the location of the world’s first plutonium processing facility and where groundbreaking tritium research took place. Buildings such as a warehouse and a sewage treatment facility have been demolished and approximately 10 slabs and structures remain to be removed prior to land transfer. Upon their removal and the complete remediation of TA-21, the land will be transferred to Los Alamos County.

Once D&D has completed at TA-21 and remediation efforts at Area G – where transuranic (TRU) waste is stored at LANL –  have been completed, efforts will turn towards D&D of structures such as office buildings, warehouses, and domes at Technical Area 54 (TA-54), LANL’s TRU and low-level waste storage, characterization, and remediation area..  D&D at TA-54 is the last step needed before the final remedy at Area G can commence.