DOE Seeks Permission to Keep Waste Above Ground at WIPP for Another Year

Twenty-six containers of transuranic waste shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for disposal years ago might not be buried there until 2018, the Energy Department disclosed on June 9 in a regulatory filing.
Hundreds of containers of transuranic waste…

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