TA-0 Offsite facilities
TA-2 Omega West nuclear reactor
TA-3 Lab center, main technical area Chemical, Low Level Waste (LLW), Mixed LLW (MLLW) Yes (Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building, Sigma Complex)
TA-5 Physical support facilities
TA-6 Mostly undeveloped
TA-8 Dynamic testing site Chemical, LLW, MLLW (Radiographic Test Facility)
TA-9 Explosives research Chemical, LLW, MLLW 
TA-11 Explosives testing Chemical, LLW, MLLW 
TA-14 Dynamic testing site Chemical, LLW, MLLW
TA-15 PHERMEX (5), weapons testing, Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrotest Facility (DARHT)  Chemical, LLW, MLLW 
TA-16 Weapons Engineering Tritium Facility (WETF), high explosives processing Chemical, LLW, MLLW  (WETF)
TA-18 Nuclear materials studies Chemical, LLW, MLLW Yes (Los Alamos Critical Experiments Facility)
TA-21 Tritium fabrication & testing Chemical, LLW, MLLW, Transuranic waste (TRU) Yes (Tritium Site Test Assembly & Tritium Science and Fabrication Facility)
TA-22 Detonator studies Unknown
TA-28 Explosives storage Chemical, LLW, MLLW 
TA-33 High-pressure tritium lab Unknown Yes (Nonproliferation R&D)

Technical Area 33 (TA-33), located in the eastern portion of LANL, is an active testing area. TA-33 was used to test initiators (components of nuclear weapons) from 1947 to the 1950's. Tritium plume monitoring CALLED SEAMIST are continuing to track the movement and concentrations of a tritiated water. Tritium plume measurement Installation of absorbers on SEAMIST membrane to 300 ft for wicking of water in vadose zone. Los Alamos National Laboratory TA-33 August 1994 to present Jake Turin 

TA-35 Nuclear safeguards research Chemical, LLW, MLLW 
TA-36 Explosives testing  Chemical, LLW, MLLW
TA-37 Explosives storage Chemical, LLW, MLLW 
TA-39 Non-nuclear weapons studies, shock wave physics Chemical, LLW, MLLW
TA-40 Detonator studies Chemical, LLW, MLLW 
TA-41 Nuclear components R&D
TA-43 Biology/Genetics Chemical, LLW, MLLW
TA-46 Lasers/Photochemistry & Wastewater system
TA-48 Radiochemistry R&D Chemical, LLW, MLLW Yes (Radiochemistry Lab)
TA-49 Historic underground subcritical tests and unknown current use
TA-50 Waste management Chemical, LLW, MLLW, TRU Yes (Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility & Waste Characterization, Reduction, and Repackaging Facility) 
TA-51 Radwaste impact research 
TA-52 Nuclear reactor performance & safety R&D 
TA-53 Los Alamos Neutron Science Center Chemical, LLW, MLLW (Isotope Production Facility)
TA-54 Waste disposal and management Chemical, LLW, MLLW, TRU(Area G, Radioassay and Nondestructive Testing Facility)
TA-55 Plutonium Facility site, plutonium processing R&D Chemical, LLW, MLLW, TRU, Mixed TRU waste (MTRUW) (Plutonium Building)
TA-57 Astrophysics observatory and environmental research
TA-58 For future use
TA-59 Health & safety stuff
TA-60 Testing & rack assembly
TA-62 Experimental science 
TA-63 Major growth area 
TA-64 Hazardous Materials Response Team Headquarters 
TA-66 Industrial partnership activities 
TA-67 Environmental buffer 
TA-68 Dynamic testing site 
TA-69 Environmental buffer
TA-70 Environmental buffer 
TA-71 Environmental buffer 
TA-72 Firing range
TA-73 Los Alamos airport
TA-74 Water wells 

 

Notes

1.  Map is from Department of Energy, Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS), V. I, January 1999, Figure 2.2.1- 1, p. 2-19.

2.  Ibid., Table 2.2.1-1, p. 2-20. More complete description of the technical areas can be found in LANL, SWEIS Project Office, Environment, Safety, and Health Division, Description of Technical Areas and Facilities at LANL, LA-UR-97-4275, 1997.

 

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