Tag Archives: WIPP

Kitty Litter Shuts Down Sole US Nuclear Weapons Waste Facility via William Boardman

Posted on 2015/04/07 by norma field

ow it’s official: using the wrong kitty litter can cause a severe and expensive nuclear accident at the nation’s unique underground radioactive waste containment facility, shutting it down indefinitely. What’s NOT official yet is why the Los Alamos National Laboratory … Continue reading →

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Los Alamos lab contractor loses $57 million over nuclear waste accident via The Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2015/01/11 by norma field

The contractor managing the nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, N.M., was slapped with a $57-million reduction in its fees for 2014, largely due to a costly nuclear waste accident last year. The contractor, Los Alamos National Security, saw its … Continue reading →

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State levies $54M in fines over nuke repository mishaps via the Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2014/12/07 by norma field

In a sharp rebuke of the U.S. Department of Energy, the state of New Mexico on Saturday levied $54 million in penalties against the federal agency and private contractors for a series of mistakes and violations that led to a … Continue reading →

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In U.S. Cleanup Efforts, Accident at Nuclear Site Points to Cost of Lapses via The New York Times

Posted on 2014/11/02 by norma field

Earlier this year, a violent chemical reaction at a New Mexico facility that stores waste from the making of plutonium bombs broke open a storage drum and sprayed the waste into the air, leading to the closure of the repository. … Continue reading →

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Gov’t audit raps Los Alamos over lax handling of radioactive waste via Fox News

Posted on 2014/10/05 by norma field

A government report released this week blasted the safety procedures for handling radioactive waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, following a leak that prompted a shutdown in February. […] Among the critical points made in the … Continue reading →

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Radiation Leak Linked to Los Alamos; Do We Really Want Biological Agents There? via Indian Country

Posted on 2014/10/03 by norma field

The cause of the radiation leak at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico, is still unresolved, but we know that it started with Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) and ended at the WIPP, shutting that facility down … Continue reading →

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Will Fracking Cause Our Next Nuclear Disaster? via Truthout

Posted on 2014/06/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] Salt-cavern storage was the plan for the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), the world’s third-deepest geological repository, constructed and licensed to permanently dispose of radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The repository sits approximately 26 miles east of the town … 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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Nuclear-waste facility on high alert over risk of new explosions via Nature

Posted on 2014/05/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

US repository scrambles to seal off barrels containing cat-litter buffer thought to be responsible for February accident. Time bombs may be ticking at the United States’ only deep geological repository for nuclear waste. US authorities concluded last week that at … Continue reading →

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Kitty litter switch may have caused leak at New Mexico nuclear waste dump, report says via FOX News

Posted on 2014/05/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

CARLSBAD, N.M. –  A mysterious radiation release that has indefinitely shuttered the federal government’s only permanent nuclear waste dump may have been caused by a change in the type of kitty litter that is mixed with the toxic waste. That’s … Continue reading →

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