The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) has met its goal to complete eight shipments of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico for permanent disposal ...

As the result of a congressional mandate, the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Nuclear Security Administration has asked the National Academies to evaluate the general feasibility of DOE’s ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — As the Department of Government Efficiency continues cost-cutting, there was confusion Tuesday about a nuclear waste facility in Carlsbad – will the office that oversees it close?

DOE was required by the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement to decide by Dec. 31 where to grout some of its low-activity ...

In this April 9, 2019, file photo, barrels of radioactive waste are loaded for transport to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, marking the first transuranic waste loading operations in five years at the ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. — The U.S. government is reportedly no longer terminating the lease of the office overseeing the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad. Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez said the ...

The Trump administration appears to be reversing a plan to end the lease for an office that manages radioactive waste as the Trump administration seeks to cancel leases for hundreds of federal ...

Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes set inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico March 20 2006. WIPP chief scientist Roger Nelson oversees the ...