This could cut down on transportation, but Weehler said the NNSA’s overall plan was symptomatic of a broader effort to keep WIPP open beyond its previously defined closure date of 2024 and ...

The Energy Department is revamping a Clinton-era plan to dispose of 50 metric tons of surplus plutonium amid cost overruns, prompting threats from South Carolina's governor to block shipments into ...

Nuclear waste is transported by truck to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. Provided by the Department of Energy Adrian Hedden Carlsbad Current-Argus achedden@currentargus.com New Mexico ...

Feds push plan to dispose plutonium using nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad. ... the NNSA said it preferred a plan that would see the plutonium shipped from the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, ...

Feds push plan to dispose plutonium using nuclear ... method of eliminating the plutonium from the environment, ultimately via emplacement at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository ...