Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is a deep geological repository licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 f
WIPP, a geological repository for radioactive waste
Installing supports in waste disposal rooms to keep them stable until filled
Shipment of casks arriving at the WIPP
On February 14, 2014, radioactive materials leaked from a damaged storage drum. Analysis of accidents at the WIPP, by the DOE, have shown lack of a "safety culture" at the facility.
The Morsleben Radioactive Waste Repository is a deep geological repository for radioactive waste in the Bartensleben rock salt mine in Morsleben, Börde District, in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt,
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
…The plant started operation in 1999, and the project is estimated to cost $19 billion in total. It is the world's third such facility, after Germany's Morsleben radioactive waste repository and the Schacht Asse II salt mine. WIPP is located approximately 26 miles (42 km) east of Carlsbad, in eastern Eddy County, in an area known as the…
Main entrance to the repository for radioactive waste Morsleben
Historic lorry in the mine
Mine Bartensleben in 1957
Filling station at 375 m depth