'Equipment Issue' Means More Waste-Disposal Dress Rehearsals at WIPP

Already months behind schedule, dress rehearsal waste-disposal operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., have been extended another two weeks due to unspecified equipment issues, an executive with the mine’s prime contractor said…

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‘Equipment Issue’ Means More Waste-Disposal Dress Rehearsals at WIPP

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