Adrian HeddenCarlsbad [email protected] More nuclear waste is being sent from a federal national lab in the state of Washington to the underground repository near Carlsbad.… ...

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 ...

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. — 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?

FILE - A sign marks he Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, March 6, 2014, near Carlsbad, N.M. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File) ...