Editor's note: This article was updated April 23 to reflect a correction in the affiliation of Joni Arends. Arends is a member of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety. Nuclear waste managers could ...

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 ...

A truck carries waste to WIPP. A Carlsbad field office for WIPP appeared on a list for lease termination, but feds said it no longer was on March 6, 2025 (Photo courtesy DOE) The federal government ...

Aug. 28—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to hear more opinions on proposed changes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. A stakeholder meeting in Santa Fe on Wednesday, one of three held ...

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.

Attendees questioned the transparency of nuclear waste operations at a federal repository near Carlsbad during a public meeting held Wednesday on proposed changes to the site’s permit to operate, ...

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 ...

Kitty litter may be to blame for a radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico, but workers continue their investigation. Investigators with the U.S. Department of Energy ...

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 ...

Workers re-entered the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s underground storage facility for the first time since a February radiological release. Two eight-person teams entered the mine on April 2. The ...

The underground mine at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is used to dispose of nuclear waste. Provided by the Department of Energy Adrian HeddenEl Rito Mediaachedden@currentargus.com A federal plan to ...

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 ...