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| | Los Alamos Study Group |
 | | For reference, there are some 35.32 cubic feet in a cubic meter, some 7.48 gallons per cubic foot, and some 55 gallons per drum (if drums were used), making 560,000 cubic meters equal to the volume in 2.7 million drums. |
 | | Of these 560,000 cubic meters, only 37,000 cubic meters, or 7%, was to come from environmental restoration (ER) activities. |
 | | It shows 32,000 cubic meters of ER waste going to TA-54, similar to the 1998 report; some 279,000 cubic meters of transuranic waste (TRU) waste in the ground at LANL to be capped and left, and some 200,000 cubic meters of LLW "soil/sediments" to be "contained in-situ," whatever that may mean. |
| www.lasg.org /waste/lanl-doewaste.htm (736 words) |
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