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Wed, Aug 13

NEWS: EPA agrees to expanded nuclear waste storage at New Mexico site

The EPA signed off on DOE’s plan to excavate two more storage panels at New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the only permanent US burial site for radioactive materials. (Axios)

  • Each new panel will have seven rooms, each the length of a football field, boosting capacity lost after a 2014 drum rupture forced a years-long shutdown.

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