Reassess New Mexico's nuclear-waste repository
Reassess New Mexico's nuclear-waste repository
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London: Nature Publishing Group
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More than 600 metres below ground near Carlsbad, New Mexico, is the world's only operating deep geological repository currently accepting transuranic nuclear waste: that contaminated by elements heavier than uranium. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), run by the US Department of Energy (DOE), is used to dispose of laboratory equipment, clothin...
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Reassess New Mexico's nuclear-waste repository
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1757965598
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0028-0836
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1476-4687
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10.1038/529149a
