The Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) will increase air for workers to breathe underground the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Adrian ...

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 ...

Crews demolish and replace structural steel needed to remove mined salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant underground repository. Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Adrian HeddenCarlsbad ...

A series of incidents at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository, including contamination found on a waste drum, led to a temporary pause of operations in the last month. The ...

Workers sink a utility shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. A $15 million project to rebuild part of an elevator at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant used to move mined salt out of the underground ...

A series of incidents were reported in recent months at an elevator and utility shaft being built at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad, drawing concerns from a ...

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?

Federal officials gathered Tuesday in southern New Mexico to mark the 25th anniversary of the nation's only underground repository for radioactive waste resulting from decades of nuclear research and ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

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 ...