MONITORING EQUIPMENT SENT INTO WIPP UNDERGROUND

Over the weekend monitoring equipment was lowered into the underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for the first time since a radiation release was detected on Feb. 14. Workers lowered radiation and air quality instruments Friday and Saturday down the salt…

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A tunnel boring machine operating inside an underground rock-salt mine tunnel.

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 […]