About 400 shipments of nuclear waste from around the country were disposed of at a repository near Carlsbad this year, and federal officials said this exceeded their goal for 2023. The Waste Isolation ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – Hundreds more shipments of transuranic waste have found a resting place in New Mexico. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) operators say they took in over 430 shipments this ...

This year could see the most nuclear waste brought to the federal repository near Carlsbad since an accidental radiological release in 2014 contaminated portions of the facility and led to its closure ...

Weapons-grade plutonium could be disposed of using the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant through a controversial project that moved forward Friday as federal officials issued the results of an environmental ...

Nuclear waste managers may have found a path forward for a contaminated drum of nuclear waste left stranded in the parking lot of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for almost a year. The drum sent from ...

DOE was required by the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement to decide by Dec. 31 where to grout some of its low-activity ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – Another seven-room section carved out of the underground salt deposits near Carlsbad, New Mexico is now full of transuranic waste. Soon, the salt will encase the waste, and ...

A multi-million-dollar air intake shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository in Carlsbad was drilled to 90 percent of its final depths, officials said, after years of delays ...