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 ...

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, ...

Weapons-grade plutonium could be disposed of using the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant through a controversial project that moved forward Friday as federal officials issued the results of an environmental ...

Nuclear waste will likely be disposed of in southeast New Mexico for at least 10 more years, buried 2,000 feet underground in salt deposit about 30 miles east of Carlsbad. To dictate the next 10 years ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – Hundreds more shipments of transuranic waste have found a resting place in New Mexico. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) operators say they took in over 430 shipments this ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

Work has started on mining a new panel at the US Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Panel 11 is the first of two waste emplacement panels approved last year by the New Mexico ...