The EPA has approved more nuclear waste storage at the New Mexico Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site in Carlsbad. The ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal ...

Storage space was lost in three panels where transuranic (TRU) waste – comprised of clothing materials and equipment irradiated during nuclear activities – is permanently disposed of, and ...

In fact, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Allison M. Macfarlane, had been a supporter of expanding the scope of WIPP to house SNF from the nation’s nuclear power plants.

Transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste made up of irradiated clothing materials and equipment is permanently disposed of in WIPP’s underground salt bed about 2,000 feet underground where the salt ...

The Academies convened a committee to study the dilute-and-dispose method in November 2017, releasing an interim report a year later that noted WIPP did not have the storage space to hold about 48 ...

The fateful explosion that shut down America’s only permanent nuclear-waste storage site happened on Valentine’s Day 2014. The facility, called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant or WIPP, is a ...

WIPP’s underground airflow was restricted in 2014 after an accidental radiological release, meaning work in the nuclear waste repository was confined to either mining more space for the waste or ...

John Wilks, vice president of the Albuquerque chapter of Veterans for Peace said that if WIPP operated beyond 2024, it should only accept waste from New Mexico’s two nuclear facilities: Los ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...