With no permanent repository for commercial nuclear waste, NM is in the spotlight | The NM Political Report

With no permanent repository for commercial nuclear waste, NM is in the spotlight | The NM Political Report: Over the past two decades, southeastern New Mexico has embraced an industry many other communities throughout the country have rejected. Following more than 20 years of proposals, studies and battles, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) opened near Carlsbad in 1999 to store nuclear weapons waste underground. Then, in 2010, a uranium enrichment plant opened […]