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2. Nuclear repository site near Carlsbad readies for waste from ...

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   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.

3. Los Alamos decontaminating nuclear waste. Could is save ... - AOL

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   In March, Manager of the DOE’s Carlsbad Field Office Mark Bollinger said WIPP could continue taking in waste for disposal until about 2083, based on the shipping rates and the availability of waste.

4. Drones used to inspect areas of underground nuclear waste ...

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   At WIPP, transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste is permanently disposed of via burial in a 2,000-foot-deep salt deposit about 30 miles east of Carlsbad. The waste is brought in via truck from federal ...

5. Deep geological repository - Wikipedia

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   Technicians emplacing transuranic waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, near Carlsbad, New Mexico. A deep geological repository is a way of storing hazardous or radioactive waste within a stable geologic environment, typically 200–1,000 m below the surface of the earth. [1]

6. Cold War nuclear waste is prioritized at Carlsbad-area ...

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   Watchdog groups were worried there might not be enough disposal capacity for nuclear waste from the Cold War, ... More than 400 shipments of nuclear waste came to Carlsbad-area repository in 2023.

7. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - Wikipedia

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   The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet (660 m) underground in a salt ...