Westinghouse designed, built and manages the Department of Energy's Waste Isolations Pilot Plant (WIPP), a repository for transuranic radioactive waste from the nation's commercial and defense nuclear programs. Transuranic waste includes tools, plastic, laboratory clothing, rubber gloves and other such items contaminated with man-made radioactive

materials. The transuranic waste is sent to WIPP in the Transuranic Packaging Transporter (TRUPACT), a reusable shipping container certified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The repository, located 2,150 feet deep in New Mexico salt beds, employs about 650 operators, engineers and other technical personnel at the 16-square-mile site. Located in southeastern New Mexico, 26 miles east of Carlsbad, project facilities include disposal rooms excavated in an ancient, stable salt formation, 2,150 feet (almost half a mile) underground.

Westinghouse CHAMPS Fleet System

Westinghouse TRU Solutions has implemented CHAMPS' Fleet Maintenance System at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. The CHAMPS Fleet application is used to maintain the 54 TRUPACT units that are currently in service. The application tracks the lot numbers associated with inventory levels at all sites. When the units arrive at WIPP, they are maintained as necessary and cleaned for reuse. The CHAMPS equipment, preventive maintenance, work order, purchasing and inventory components are implemented to accomplish the work and retain the maintenance history. The CHAMPS fleet system also helps optimize the inventory levels of the TRUPACTS at all facilities.

Westinghouse currently uses the CHAMPS Fleet Maintenance system at their Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM.