Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A truck carries waste to WIPP. A Carlsbad field office for WIPP appeared on a list for lease termination, but feds said it no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 23—It's a one-of-a-kind facility. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, more than 25 miles from Carlsbad, is the nation's only ...

A shipment of transuranic waste approaches EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) on the WIPP North Access Road. To date, almost 13,000 shipments have been safely transported to WIPP, and its drivers ...

Aug. 23—It's a one-of-a-kind facility. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, more than 25 miles from Carlsbad, is the nation's only deep geologic repository for nuclear waste. Legacy nuclear waste, ...

As the result of a congressional mandate, the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Nuclear Security Administration has asked the National Academies to evaluate the general feasibility of DOE’s ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — As the Department of Government Efficiency continues cost-cutting, there was confusion Tuesday about a nuclear waste facility in Carlsbad – will the office that oversees it close?

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant operates about 30 miles east of Carlsbad. File photo Staff reports Los Alamos Technical Associates, a federally hired subcontractor that supports regulatory and ...

A series of incidents at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository, including contamination found on a waste drum, led to a temporary pause of operations in the last month. The ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — The U.S. government is reportedly no longer terminating the lease of the office overseeing the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad. Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez said the ...