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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

As the result of a congressional mandate, the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Nuclear Security Administration has asked the National Academies to evaluate the general feasibility of DOE’s ...

An elevator used to move mined salt out of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant drew concerns from federal oversight officials as gradually collapsing salt put excess stress on the hoist. The salt “creep” ...

Adrian HeddenCarlsbad Current-Argus Officials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant touted the facility’s recent efforts they said increased safety among workers at the underground nuclear waste ...

Workers sink a utility shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. A $15 million project to rebuild part of an elevator at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant used to move mined salt out of the underground ...

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 ...

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 ...