N3B manages the 10-year, $1.4 billion Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract for the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management’s Los Alamos Field Office. N3B is responsible for cleaning up contamination that resulted from LANL operations before 1999. N3B personnel also package and ship radioactive and hazardous waste offsite for permanent disposal.

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Safety

Our employees and subcontractors work to the highest standards of safety.

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Discipline

We set clear goals and execute our plans with the end in mind.

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Competence

We have the staff and expertise to ensure our mission is met.

Our Top Priorities

In cleaning up legacy waste, or waste generated before 1999, we are working in two key areas: Environmental Remediation and Waste Management. Our goal is to clean up the environment and protect our natural resources.

Environmental Remediation

Groundwater and surface water monitoring, chromium and RDX plume monitoring, and waste site characterization and remediation

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WasTe Management

Hazardous and radioactive waste characterization, management, packaging and transportation offsite for permanent disposal

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News & Highlights

N3B and Triad cooperate to ship radioactive waste to WIPP - January 19, 2021

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — N3B and Triad have successfully partnered to combine transuranic (TRU) waste shipment for additional efficiency. The... Read More ›

N3B completes first campaign under 2016 Consent Order to clean up LANL legacy waste - December 16, 2020

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — A campaign to clean up several sites with elevated levels of soil contamination at Los Alamos... Read More ›

LANL Individual Permit status meeting scheduled for December 16 - December 14, 2020

LOS ALAMOS, N.M.—The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and its cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear... Read More ›