CAUSE OF WIPP AIRBORNE RADIATION DETECTED FRIDAY STILL UNKNOWN

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant remains closed to nonessential personnel as officials investigate what set off an airborne radiation monitor at the facility Friday night. A continuous air monitor detected airborne radiation underground at about 11:30 p.m. Friday,…

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A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

SRS resumes shipping remote-handled TRU waste to WIPP

The Department of Energy has sent its first shipment of remote-handled transuranic waste since 2009 from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) using a new shipping container. Remote-handled waste is more radioactive… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]