The Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) will increase air for workers to breathe underground the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Adrian ...

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 ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — The U.S. government is reportedly no longer terminating the lease of the office overseeing the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad. Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez said the ...

A series of incidents at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository, including contamination found on a waste drum, led to a temporary pause of operations in the last month. The ...

A $15 million project to rebuild part of an elevator at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant used to move mined salt out of the underground was planned for July and expected to be completed by October, ...

Nuclear waste managers could not financially justify proposed changes in how the materials are handled for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Repository, during a public hearing Wednesday in ...

New Mexico has fined the US DOE $16m for failing to prioritise the removal of legacy waste from LANL for disposal at WIPP.

A series of incidents were reported in recent months at an elevator and utility shaft being built at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad, drawing concerns from a ...

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 ...