Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A series of incidents at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository, including contamination found on a waste drum, ...

Adrian HeddenCarlsbad Current-Argusachedden@currentargus.com Nuclear waste disposal was halted more than a month ago at the ...

A shipment of nuclear waste arrived in southeast New Mexico on March 26, 1999. It was the first time the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, U.S.’ only repository for nuclear waste, was operational after ...

Federal officials gathered Tuesday in southern New Mexico to mark the 25th anniversary of the nation's only underground repository for radioactive waste resulting from decades of nuclear research and ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Adrian HeddenCarlsbad Current-Argus Officials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant touted the facility’s recent efforts they said increased safety among workers at the underground nuclear waste ...

Workers sink a utility shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. 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 ...

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 ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — As the Department of Government Efficiency continues cost-cutting, there was confusion Tuesday about a nuclear waste facility in Carlsbad – will the office that oversees it close?

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 ...