Will salt beds in New Mexico become the national nuclear waste dump?
MAY 13, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024327
NPR : Having abandoned plans to use Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the nation’s repository for radioactive waste, the US government is considering an alternative site: the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. WIPP, which occupies salt caverns outside Carlsbad, New Mexico, is already being used to store the federal government’s own nuclear waste. The site has ample space for spent fuel from commercial reactors.
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