Adrian Hedden Carlsbad Current-Argus achedden@currentargus.com The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant disposes of up to 17 nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A truck carries waste to WIPP. A Carlsbad field office for WIPP appeared on a list for lease termination, but feds said it no ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — As the Department of Government Efficiency continues cost-cutting, there was confusion Tuesday about a nuclear waste facility in Carlsbad – will the office that oversees it close?

In the latest sign of friction between the state of New Mexico and the Department of Energy, a state agency Thursday proposed ...

As the result of a congressional mandate, the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Nuclear Security Administration has asked the National Academies to evaluate the general feasibility of DOE’s ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – The EPA has approved more nuclear waste storage at the New Mexico Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site in Carlsbad. The WIPP site recently expanded to add two new panels ...

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 only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

Crew members prepare the first corrugated metal pipe (CMP) transuranic waste stream shipment for permanent disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Provided by DOE Adrian HeddenCarlsbad ...

During a previous annual maintenance outage at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, workers safely performed a head rope replacement at the site’s waste hoist building where transuranic waste shipments ...