The U.S. is considering revamping its nuclear weapons program. What does this mean for WIPP? | The NM Political Report

The U.S. is considering revamping its nuclear weapons program. What does this mean for WIPP? | The NM Political Report: All systems, no matter how efficient, produce some amount of waste.  “Wherever people are doing something, there are trash cans around,” Dr. Robert Hayes joked to NM Political Report. Hayes is an associate professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University and a former principal engineer at New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). […]