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USA’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to increase its space for nuclear trash

More space is coming to dispose of nuclear waste at a Carlsbad-area
facility where the materials from around the country are buried thousands
of feet underground. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant was initially
permitted for eight disposal panels, where drums of transuranic (TRU)
nuclear waste is disposed of via burial in an underground salt deposit
about 2,000 feet beneath the surface.

But in 2014, a drum of waste ruptured
and left portions of WIPP’s underground contaminated and unusable for
further waste disposal. That’s why the U.S. Department of Energy sought
to mine two additional panels as it works toward WIPP’s volume of
capacity of 6.2 million cubic feet of waste.

 Carlsbad Current Argus 28th Jan 2024

https://eu.currentargus.com/story/news/2024/01/28/more-space-mined-at-wipp-for-nuclear-waste-disposal-near-carlsbad/72327183007/

January 31, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized