WIPP ABOVEGROUND WASTE PERMIT EXTENDED

Due to the continued shutdown of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, New Mexico is extending deadlines for storing waste aboveground at the site, according to an order by the New Mexico Environment Department released yesterday. The extension only applies to waste…

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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 […]