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A new plan for disposing of nuclear waste at USA’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Carlsbad Current Argus 14th April 2021, A plan to build two new areas to dispose of nuclear waste began taking
shape at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant after the U.S. Department of Energy published a report on the feasibility of adding an 11th and 12th waste panel to the underground nuclear waste repository.

At WIPP, low-level transuranic (TRU) waste made up of equipment and materials radiated during nuclear activities is permanently emplaced in an underground salt deposit more than 2,000 feet underground. In its original design, WIPP was planned to have eight panels for such disposal, but much of that space wasrestricted and abandoned following an accidental radiological release in2014 that contaminated parts of the underground and led to a three-year
pause of WIPP’s emplacement operations.

https://eu.currentargus.com/story/news/local/2021/04/14/wipp-aims-expand-underground-facility-hold-nuclear-waste/7149136002/

April 17, 2021 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes