Feds: Highly Likely Nuclear Dump Will Open in December

Source: Associated Press

Feds: Highly Likely Nuclear Dump Will Open in December

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE, N.M. — Aug 6, 2016, 6:30 PM ET

The U.S. Department of Energy says it is 80 percent confident that the federal government's only underground nuclear waste repository will partly reopen in December.

That prediction comes after federal officials once promised the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant would be cleaned up and reopened by this March, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports (http://goo.gl/9QvNEq).

The New Mexico plant has been closed since February 2014, when an inappropriately packed container of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory ruptured and contaminated part of the facility.

The closure derailed cleanup at federal sites around the nation and recovery is costing the Energy Department hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Related: DOE 80% certain WIPP to open in December (Santa Fe New Mexican)