EDITORIAL: WIPP Recovery—Five Months On, Leadership and Accountability Lacking

Monday, July 14, will mark five months since the radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant underground that has resulted in the repository—and the Department of Energy’s transuranic waste program—being shut down for the foreseeable…

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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 […]