A series of incidents at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository, including contamination found on a waste drum, led to a temporary pause of operations in the last month. The ...

Crews demolish and replace structural steel needed to remove mined salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant underground repository. Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Adrian HeddenCarlsbad ...

The Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) will increase air for workers to breathe underground the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Adrian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository near Carlsbad were suspended for about two months as workers ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico has announced plans to replace diesel vehicles and equipment with electrical and battery-operated components ...

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 ...

FILE - A sign marks he Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, March 6, 2014, near Carlsbad, N.M. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File) ...

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) has met its goal to complete eight shipments of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico for permanent disposal ...