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US / Watchdog Says WIPP Radwaste Facility Could Run Out Of Room

By David Dalton
3 December 2020

GAO calls for better planning at New Mexico site
Watchdog Says WIPP Radwaste Facility Could Run Out Of Room
The WIPP facility near Carlsbad in New Mexico.
The US government’s only underground nuclear waste facility could run out of room if the number of drums shipped to the New Mexico site keeps expanding or if a new method for measuring the waste is ended as part of a pending legal challenge, according to a nonpartisan congressional watchdog.

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