Transuranic Waste

Maintenance outage concludes, shipments to resume at WIPP

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PHOENIX— A maintenance outage at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., which started Jan. 26, concluded Monday, a site manager said.
Shipments of defense-related transuranic waste to the underground salt mine should resume…

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