Transuranic Waste

WIPP outage addressing ‘substandard’ assets

By Photo of Staff Reports

The annual outage at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico should end in the coming week, following significant replacement work and upgrades to infrastructure that a watchdog deemed “substandard or inadequate.” 
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Wrap up: Senator Murphy says Iran war plans “incoherent and incomplete”; Finland plans to left ban on nuclear arms; U.S. opposes IAEA resolution condemning attacks on Ukrainian energy; more

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