Above-Ground WIPP Waste Will Wait Longer

The Energy Department is preparing for a scenario in which some portion of the transuranic waste now stored above ground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M. remains above ground until next summer — six months after the mine’s scheduled,…

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