RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION FOUND AT ADDITIONAL SPOTS AROUND WIPP SITE

Additional samples collected at “numerous locations on and around the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant” have tested positive for “slightly elevated levels of airborne radioactive concentrations” matching waste disposed at WIPP, DOE said yesterday.…

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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 […]