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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shipment of nuclear waste arrived in southeast New Mexico on March 26, 1999. It was the first time the Waste Isolation Pilot ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – The EPA has approved more nuclear waste storage at the New Mexico Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site in Carlsbad. The WIPP site recently expanded to add two new panels ...

Nuclear waste could continue to be disposed of in southeast New Mexico for another 60 years, officials said. Mark Bollinger, manager of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office said ...

Nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository near Carlsbad were suspended for about two months as workers completed numerous maintenance projects at the underground facility.

A shipment of transuranic waste approaches EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) on the WIPP North Access Road. To date, almost 13,000 shipments have been safely transported to WIPP, and its drivers ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — As the Department of Government Efficiency continues cost-cutting, there was confusion Tuesday about a nuclear waste facility in Carlsbad – will the office that oversees it close?

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management released an initial accident report that said the radiological release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico could ...

A drum of nuclear waste ruptured 10 years ago in the underground of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository near Carlsbad, triggering a series of events that saw the facility close for three years ...

A shipment of nuclear waste arrived in southeast New Mexico on March 26, 1999. It was the first time the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, U.S.’ only repository for nuclear waste, was operational after ...