Carlsbad: Storing Defense Dept. Waste

Santa Fe New Mexican - The Carlsbad community in southeastern New Mexico is admittedly attracted to nuclear waste. When it was virtually the only community in the country willing to host the nation's first nuclear waste repository almost 40 years ago, that interest may have seemed a little desperate. Now that the federal government has canceled plans for its primary geological repository at Yucca Mountain, and now that the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is still the only operating geological repository in the world, WIPP's supporters in Carlsbad are calling their decision a success story and looking at opportunities for taking it to the next level. Read full story here:

Carlsbad: Storing Defense Dept. Waste