Tag Archives: WIPP

Call for better oversight of nuclear-waste storage via Nature

Posted on 2014/05/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Accident at US repository highlights need for tougher safety monitoring, say experts. A serious accident in February at the United States’ only deep-storage repository for nuclear waste might never have happened had the government not disbanded a key independent scientific … 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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US radiation leak concerns Mexicans via Newspapertree

Posted on 2014/03/26 by norma field

Serious problems at a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico have caught the eyes of the press and government officials in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The current round of troubles began February 5 at the … 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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Japan, U.S. Move to Expand Nuclear Power Programs Despite Contamination at Fukushima & New Mexico via Democracy Now!

Posted on 2014/03/04 by norma field

We end today’s show with news that Japan has announced a major push to revive its nuclear energy program, just weeks before the third anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. This comes just a week after it was revealed … 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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Editorial: NM, U.S. need unified front on nuclear waste via The Albuquerque Journal

Posted on 2013/12/16 by norma field

Yes, it is unfortunate, as Journal Washington correspondent Michael Coleman points out in the Sunday Journal, that the Land of Enchantment’s duly elected representatives couldn’t text, dial, email or meet to discuss their disagreement on expanding sources of low-level plutonium-contaminated … Continue reading →

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