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, ...

Aug. 28—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to hear more opinions on proposed changes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. A stakeholder meeting in Santa Fe on Wednesday, one of three held ...

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.

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 ...

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 [email protected] A federal plan to ...

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 ...

Crews demolish and replace structural steel needed to remove mined salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant underground repository. Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Adrian HeddenCarlsbad ...