But there was nuclear waste emplaced in Room 6 of Panel 7, where the ceiling collapsed. WIPP spokesman Donavan Mager corrected the record on Tuesday, in response to an inquiry from the Current-Argus.

The department asked for increased precautions for the storage of nitrate salt-bearing waste containers at both WIPP and the Los Alamos National Laboratory based on walk-throughs recently ...

Nuclear waste will continue being buried at a facility near Carlsbad for the coming decades, as far into the future as 2050 or 2080. In preparation for that continued mission of disposing of the ...

Nuclear waste will likely be disposed of in southeast New Mexico for at least 10 more years, buried 2,000 feet underground in salt deposit about 30 miles east of Carlsbad. To dictate the next 10 ...

The primary activities at WIPP involve the disposal of transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste from DOE sites around the country via burial in a salt deposit about 2,000 feet underground.

News Published: 13 May 2014 Call for better oversight of nuclear-waste storage Declan Butler Nature 509, 267–268 (2014) Cite this article ...