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Tennessee nuclear waste filling disposal area at site near Carlsbad

A new area mined at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant took in its first nuclear waste shipments from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ....

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Tennessee nuclear waste filling disposal area at site near Carlsbad

A new area mined at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant took in its first nuclear waste shipments from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ....

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WIPP begins waste emplacement in Panel 8

Each panel at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant requires mining of around 160,000 tons of salt. ....

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Waste emplacement completed at seventh WIPP panel : Waste & Recycling

The final container of transuranic waste has been emplaced in Panel 7 of the US Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. The panel will now be sealed whilst emplacement activities move to the newly mined Panel 8. ....

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Nuclear waste repository poses risk to New Mexico, critics

"It’s something that I don’t feel like the state should be dealing with longer than it needs to," said Teracita Keyanna. ....

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