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June 24th

  • FR: EPA Vallecitos transuranic waste for wipp: Proposed Approval of the Central Characterizati on Project's Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste Characterizati on Program at General Electric Vallecitos Nuclear Center AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency. ACTION: Notice of availability

June 22nd

  • DOE transfers WIPP water line to city - Carlsbad Current-Argus: The U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday that the Carlsbad Field Office will transfer the DOE-owned Waste Isolation Pilot Plant water line to the city of Carlsbad. The move will provide the city with an additional water supply while saving the Department of Energy thousands of dollars. DOE first installed the water line in 1984 to support the ongoing operations of the department 9;s disposal facility. It now transports water from the city-owned Double Eagle Water System wells to the plant. Under the finalized bill of sale, the city will take over complete responsibility for maintaining and repairing the pipeline in exchange for the water line. The city of Carlsbad also agrees to maintain WIPP's existing priority water use and will supply WIPP with up to 6.6 million gallons of water a year.

June 21st

  • FR: EPA: Evaluation of WIPP compliance: Intent To Evaluate Whether the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Continues To Comply With the Disposal Regulations and Compliance Criteria AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of availability

June 17th

  • States, energy secretary agree to safe nuclear waste transport - Las Vegas Sun: The Western Governors' ; Association and Energy Secretary Steven Chu agreed today to enhance safe and secure transportation of nuclear waste to a repository in New Mexico. The agreement was signed during the Western Governors' ; Association� 39;s annual meeting by Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana and C.L. "Butch&qu ot; Otter of Idaho, along with Chu. It expands a 10-year-old agreement that has existed through the two previous administration s of Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, said Alex Schroeder, spokesman for the association. The waste is mostly equipment, clothing and materials containing trace amounts of plutonium or other radioactive particles that can be traced back to Cold War nuclear weapons work in the West.

June 16th

June 5th

  • Nuclear waste heads to final resting place - UPI.com: Higher-dose nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project and the Cold War is headed for the first time to a special facility in Carlsbad, New Mexico, officials say. A spokesman for the Los Alamos National Laboratory says the initial truckload of waste material left Los Alamos Tuesday afternoon for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, The New Mexican reports.

June 4th

  • NM lab ships special waste to WIPP - KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, TX: newswest9.com |: Los Alamos National Laboratory has sent its first shipment of remote-handled radioactive waste to the federal government 9;s underground repository in southern New Mexico. The shipment left the northern New Mexico lab on Tuesday. It's the first of 16 canisters of such waste that are scheduled to be sent to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant this year. The shipments cleared their final regulatory hurdle in April when the state Environment Department approved a report detailing the contents of the canisters and where the material was used.

April 26th

  • Aiken Standard: TRU waste program in new phase: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) began a new phase of waste disposition Thursday, initiating the first shipment of Remote Handled (RH) Transuranic (TRU) waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, N.M. These shipments complement the contact handled TRU waste shipments that have been occurring at SRS for almost a decade. TRU waste, a result of decades of defense-relate d research and development activities, is a special class of radioactive material consisting of clothing, tools, rags, debris and other such items contaminated with radioactive elements, with an atomic number greater than uranium. TRU waste is primarily contaminated with plutonium, and may also be mixed with hazardous chemicals.

April 25th

  • A new Yucca Mountain in New Mexico? - Politics: The Early Line - Las Vegas Sun: Is a salt formation in New Mexico the new Yucca Mountain? A trade industry publication reports today that discussions are underway to promote an existing facility in New Mexico as an alternative to storing the nation?s spent nuclear fuel in the desert north of Las Vegas. The Obama administration has promised to "scale back" funds for the Yucca Mountain project, and the president has vowed it will not open as a waste dump. A report last week indicated the fiscal 2010 funding cut would be severe.

April 8th

April 5th

  • New Mexico Independent » WIPP shouldn?t aspire to be nation?s nuclear waste dump: Is it possible that the salt deposits around Carlsbad could become not only the home to WIPP, but to a far larger and more dangerous facility that would replace Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the nation?s principal storage site for very hot nuclear waste? If Carlsbad Mayor Bob Forrest has anything to say about it, trucks and trains from around the country could be carrying used nuclear fuel rods, and other hot radioactive material, on New Mexico interstates and rail lines near major population centers to oil and gas and potash country in the southeast part of the state. Unlike Nevada and its congressional delegation, which has fought Yucca Mountain tooth and nail for years, many in New Mexico seem unperturbed by the thought of the state becoming the nation?s nuclear waste dump.

April 2nd

  • New Mexico Independent » On the nuclear waste beat, should we WIPP it good?: U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., announced in a press release today that $172 million in stimulus money will be spent at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, known as WIPP, in southern New Mexico near Carlsbad. ?The Recovery funding that will go to WIPP will create hundreds of jobs in southeastern New Mexico and help jumpstart the economy in a responsible way,? said Teague. ?The work that WIPP does to prepare and store nuclear waste is a unique and vital asset to our nation.? WIPP is federal government?s only nuclear waste repository, and it recently reached its 10-year anniversary. Annotated link http://www.dii go.com/bookmar k/http%3A%2F%2 Fnewmexicoinde pendent.com%2F 23653%2Fon-the -nuclear-waste -beat-should-w e-wipp-it-good

March 29th

  • Protest marks WIPP anniversary: The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad opened 10 years ago Thursday, and a decade later the storage of radioactive waste there continues to draw protests. Radioactive waste is stored at WIPP nearly 22 hundred feet under the southeastern New Mexico desert.

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