Tag Archives: the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Idaho, Energy Department Sign Deal on Spent Nuclear Fuel via at The New York Times

Posted on 2019/11/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho granted a conditional waiver Thursday to the U.S. Department of Energy that could allow research quantities of spent nuclear fuel into the state after years of blocking such shipments. The agreement announced by Gov. Brad Little … Continue reading →

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Nuclear power: Asking the wrong questions via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2016/06/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Steven Starr […] I am a senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility, a group that does call for abolition. Physicians for Social Responsibility is deeply concerned about the medical and ethical consequences of the ongoing production of enormous amounts … Continue reading →

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Breaking Bad: A Nuclear Waste Disaster via DC Bureau

Posted on 2014/06/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Carlsbad, New Mexico — A vast salt mine under the New Mexico desert was the Department of Energy’s last nuclear waste storage solution. On Valentines night, one of the now suspect 500 waste drums from DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory … Continue reading →

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Workers Locate Site of Contamination Inside WIPP Repository via Nuclear Power Industry News

Posted on 2014/04/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Department of Energy is a step closer to identifying the source of a February radiation alarm that has kept the New Mexico nuclear waste repository closed to shipments. A team that went underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant … Continue reading →

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Nuclear waste from New Mexico lab may go to Texas via The Washington Post

Posted on 2014/03/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With the government’s only permanent nuclear waste dump shuttered indefinitely by back-to-back accidents, officials are making plans to ship radioactive waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory to rural West Texas. The Department of Energy and the operator … Continue reading →

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* BREAKING NEWS * Ceiling Collapse from Possible Explosion and Fire in New Mexico Nuke Storage Facility; Barrels of Nuclear Waste Smashed and Leaking via Turner Radio Network

Posted on 2014/02/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

February 21, 2014 — (TRN) — *** BREAKING NEWS *** — Carlsbad, NM —  New Information from lab tests and US Department of Energy (DOE) Reports indicate the actual release of radiation from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds via The New York Times

Posted on 2014/02/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

CARLSBAD, N.M. — Half a mile beneath the desert surface, in thick salt beds left behind by seas that dried up hundreds of millions of years ago, the Department of Energy is carving out rooms as long as football fields … Continue reading →

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