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Sat Nov 1

• Cold War era radioactive wastes leaving Nevada Test Site - Las Vegas Sun: Treating radioactive wastes lingering from the Cold War era when the United States experimented with nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site is in its final chapter, the National Nuclear Security Administration said today. Since completing 48 shipments involving 1,860 55-gallon drums of what's known as "transura nic," or TRU, wastes from the Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. In November 2005, Nevada is preparing another 58 oversized boxes for disposal.

Tue Oct 28

• Permit change reduces sampling, analysis rules at several WIPP site locations - Carlsbad Current-Argus: A permit change at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant will allow the Department of Energy to eliminate continued sampling and analysis at 15 WIPP site locations. The New Mexico Environment Department approved the Class 3 permit modification, according to a news release. The DOE has sampled data at the 15 locations over the past decade, and all information has indicated that the areas pose no risk to human health or the environment. The locations include an evaporation pond, a material storage area and a number of mud pits constructed for exploratory boreholes.

Fri Oct 17

• Underground WIPP lab will formally open - Carlsbad Current-Argus: The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's efforts toward solving the secrets of the universe will be acknowledged next week. The WIPP site's Enriched Xenon Observatory Project will hold a ribbon cutting Wednesday at the WIPP underground. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., will be the VIP guest at the invite-only kickoff. Domenici will also appear in Carlsbad this week at a CARC Inc. event. The project, a particle physics collaboration led by Stanford University, has developed what's called an EXO-200 detector. The device is being set up within WIPP's underground because of the low background radiation levels at the underground nuclear waste repository. Those invited to next week's event will get a chance to see the equipment up close.

Thu Oct 9

• An Alert Unlike Any Other - Los Angeles Times
• PermanentMarke rsImplementati onPlan.pdf (application/p df Object)
• Excerpts from "Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant"
• Sandia National Laboratories - WIPP Opens

Fri Oct 3

• Bush signs funding legislation for WIPP - Carlsbad Current-Argus: An outline to fund the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant was part of a funding package signed by President Bush Tuesday night, according to a news release from the office of Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. Article Launched: 10/01/2008 09:05:09 PM MDT WIPP is a U.S. Department of Energy facility designed to safely isolate defense-relate d transuranic waste from people and the environment. Waste temporarily stored at sites around the country is shipped to WIPP and permanently disposed of in rooms mined out of an ancient salt formation 2,150 feet below the surface. WIPP, which began waste disposal operations in 1999, is located 26 miles outside of Carlsbad.

Tue Aug 26

• WIPP Exhibit: Message to 12,000 A.D.: how do you leave a message warning of radioactive waste that will still be understood ten thousand years from now?

Thu Aug 7

• U.S. Department of Energy Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

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