WIPP Decontamination Moving Ahead, Panel Closure on the Horizon

Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
3/20/2015
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Recovery of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is in full swing after the site’s managing contractor, Nuclear Waste Partnership, began major decontamination efforts last month and hopes to meet a goal…

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