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?

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department of Energy employees who oversee the nation’s only ...

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 ...