A truck carries waste to WIPP. A Carlsbad field office for WIPP appeared on a list for lease termination, but feds said it no longer was on March 6, 2025 (Photo courtesy DOE) The federal government ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – The EPA has approved more nuclear waste storage at the New Mexico Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is requesting a $6.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2018 — the largest in more than a decade. The DOE hopes to allocate $323 million to Carlsbad's Waste Isolation Pilot ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – The nation’s only deep underground nuclear waste storage site in southeast New Mexico might be looking at big cuts. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s main Carlsbad office is ...

The underground mine at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is used to dispose of nuclear waste. Provided by the Department of Energy Adrian HeddenEl Rito [email protected] A federal plan to ...

New Mexico has fined the US DOE $16m for failing to prioritise the removal of legacy waste from LANL for disposal at WIPP.

Kitty litter may be to blame for a radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico, but workers continue their investigation. Investigators with the U.S. Department of Energy ...