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Carlsbad Current-Argus
April 21, 2018
Leadership at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant believe the facility is operating at a “new normal” after the facility was reopened last year following a three-year shutdown caused by an accidental radiological release in 2014. Moving forward, Bruce Covert, President of Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) whichÃâà...
Tri-City Herald
April 20, 2018
It plans to release a draft request for bids for the new Central Plateau Cleanup Contract at the Hanford nuclear reservation within 15 to 45 days, DOE announced ... mostly debris contaminated with plutonium — until the waste is shipped to a national repository in New Mexico, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
Aiken Standard
April 20, 2018
The governor's council is a nine-member panel, including state Sen. Tom Young, R-Aiken, that informs the governor on all things nuclear. Dilute-and-dispose is a process that involves mixing plutonium with inert material for burial elsewhere, in this case the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. WIPPÃâà...
KPVI News 6
April 18, 2018
Since 2012, the ARP V facility has processed and repackaged approximately 9,500 drums of sludge-contaminated waste to remove liquids and prohibited items from the waste in preparation for shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico for permanent disposal. The suspect waste drum hadÃâà...
Albuquerque Journal
April 18, 2018
It was headed to WIPP. More than 70,000 metric tons of used reactor fuel are in temporary facilities in 39 states, some next to rivers or atop water tables. Where was the due diligence for those residents? Critics should question a new nuclear project's safety. And folks who want the waste stored “somewhereÃâà...
Santa Fe New Mexican
April 17, 2018
In 2014, a drum buried at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad exploded and leaked radiation through a vent to the air above. The incident, caused by improper disposal of nuclear waste at the lab, exposed 21 WIPP employees to low levels of radiation and was one of the costliest nuclear accidentsÃâà...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
April 11, 2018
What's the best way to learn about the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and its ongoing mission? ... Now that DOE and Nuclear Waste Partnership are updating the facility — a new ventilation shaft, mining of an eight panel, and exploration of storage of plutonium as TRU waste — there again is a need to provideÃâà...
Albuquerque Journal
April 9, 2018
Marquez pointed to an accidental radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in 2014, which shuttered the permanent repository for transuranic waste about 25 miles from Carlsbad for about three years. He said human error caused the incident at WIPP and could lead to more danger for the peopleÃâà...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
April 8, 2018
Marquez pointed to an accidental radiation release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in 2014, which shuttered the permanent repository for transuranic waste ... He said human error caused the incident at WIPP, and could lead to more danger for the people of southeast New Mexico if the proposed facilityÃâà...
Idaho Statesman
April 4, 2018
No no no. The DOE wants to bring more radioactive waste for cleanup in to Idaho and have Idaho waive the six month in/six month out terms contained in the 1995 Settlement Agreement? This cleanup waste needs to come here because of an accident at the DOE WIPP site, which had to close down for twoÃâà...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
March 21, 2018
Susana Martinez and her administration negotiated the deal, which marked the largest settlement in history between a state and the DOE. .... Butch Tongate, cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department, said improving the roads that ship nuclear waste to WIPP from nuclear facilities aroundÃâà...
Chem.Info
March 16, 2018
"If DOE made the decision to pursue this, we would have to sit down with the state and see if we can get some relief from the six-months-in, six-months-out," he said. He said part of the problem is a backlog of shipments leaving Idaho due to a backlog of receiving them at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, whichÃâà...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
March 15, 2018
Weapons-grade plutonium could be coming to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, after the U.S. Department of Energy commissioned a national group of scientists ... where WIPP and DOE officials, along with local leaders gave presentations and fielded questions as to the viability of bringing plutonium to WIPP.
Santa Fe New Mexican
March 14, 2018
“The department has been looking at where to take waste from other DOE sites and treat it,” Energy Department spokesman Brad Bugger said last week. ... The Idaho treatment plant compacts the transuranic waste, making it easier to ship and put into long-term storage at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant inÃâà...
KRWG
March 8, 2018
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Officials are seeking permit changes to allow more nuclear waste to be stored in an underground facility in southeastern New Mexico. The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports Waste Isolation Pilot Plant officials are looking to redefine how the volume of the waste is calculated at theÃâà...
Santa Fe New Mexican
March 8, 2018
CARLSBAD — Officials are seeking permit changes to allow more nuclear waste to be stored in an underground facility in southeastern New Mexico. Officials with the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad are looking to redefine how the volume of the waste is calculated, the Carlsbad Current-ArgusÃâà...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
March 7, 2018
CARLSBAD — Officials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant hope that by redefining how the volume of nuclear waste is calculated when emplaced in the .... “This is the key to WIPP's ability to expand the amount of waste that is out there,” said Roger Nelson, a retired DOE scientist who worked on the WIPPÃâà...
Albuquerque Journal
March 5, 2018
CARLSBAD – Officials are hoping to seal off the south end of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's underground salt mine, where radiation was ... access areas, the Department of Energy, which owns WIPP, and Nuclear Waste Partnership, which oversees the facility's operations, proposed a permit modificationÃâà...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
March 1, 2018
“This permit modification will allow DOE to deliberately and safely withdraw and seal the south end of WIPP,” Mager said. “The change greatly ... A continuous miner cuts into the salt in the underground mine of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Jan. 15 at WIPP. (Photo: Courtesy: Nuclear Waste Partnership).
Post Register
February 21, 2018
However, waste shipments were delayed for three years due to an accident at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. ... Over the course of the current federal fiscal year, which started Oct. 1, 2017, WIPP has received about 565 cubic meters of waste from DOE Idaho, equaling about 72 percent of allÃâà...
Carlsbad Current-Argus
February 16, 2018
A federal budget proposal made by President Donald Trump for the Department of Energy could hike the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's funding to $403 million for fiscal year 2019. The potential increase would mark a $79 million boost in WIPP's funding compared with enacted spending in FY 2017, whileÃâà...
Idaho State Journal
December 31, 1999
However, shipments were delayed for three years due to an accident at the WIPP and DOE officials have said they expect to be done sometime in 2019. The barrels in question contain a mix of fluids and solvents that came from nuclear weapons production during the Cold War at the Rocky Flats Plant nearÃâà...
Post Register
December 31, 1999
However, shipments were delayed for three years due to an accident at the WIPP and DOE officials have said they expect to be done sometime in 2019. The barrels in question contain a mix of fluids and solvents that came from nuclear weapons production during the Cold War at the Rocky Flats Plant nearÃâà...
Twin Falls Times-News
December 31, 1999
BOISE — A barrel containing radioactive sludge ruptured at an Idaho nuclear facility, federal officials said Thursday, resulting in no injuries and no risk to ... The barrel that ruptured had been moved to the containment structure in preparation for shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, NewÃâà...
