WIPP EMPLOYEE DIES IN TRUCK ACCIDENT NEAR SITE

A Waste Isolation Pilot Plant employee died in an accident between a pickup truck and a tractor trailer on the WIPP access road Monday afternoon in which both vehicles burst into flames. While the driver of the tractor trailer was not injured, a WIPP employee driving…

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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 […]