Editor's note: This article was updated April 23 to reflect a correction in the affiliation of Joni Arends. Arends is a member of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety. Nuclear waste managers could ...

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 ...

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, ...

Nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository near Carlsbad were suspended for about two months as workers completed numerous maintenance projects at the underground facility.

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 Mediaachedden@currentargus.com A federal plan to ...

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 ...

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 criticality control overpack drum inspection process will use a robotic arm to perform pre-use inspections and security checks after the drum is delivered to the inspection area by an automated ...

Now that construction of the new large-scale ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is complete, the US Department of Environmental Management is aiming for it to be fully operational ...