Most transuranic waste is contaminated rags, protective clothing, laboratory equipment, and tools.
Numerous DOE sites generate transuranic waste, which is temporarily stored on site in metal drums or boxes in shallow trenches covered with soil or on above ground asphalt pads. WIPP, located in the desert near Carlsbad, New Mexico, will contain the transuranic waste 2,150 feet deep in a salt bed. Salt deposits have been proposed for this waste because they occur in areas where there's little earthquake activity and little to no groundwater.