Security & Safety

‘Chemically Incompatible Contents’ Caused WIPP Emergency, Says DOE

By Lubomir Mitev
27 March 2015

27 Mar (NucNet): Chemically incompatible contents in a drum stored underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico caused a release of radioactive material on 14 February 2014, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has said.

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