May 28, 2026

Benton County, Wash., wants to keep WIPP open to Hanford

By Wayne Barber

The governing board for Benton County, Wash., home to the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, has urged New Mexico officials not to restrict interstate shipments of transuranic waste to DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M.
“The Benton…

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