Nuclear Waste Facility New Mexico

Another shipment followed on april 6 of the same year.

Nuclear power plant efficiency the cold war period. A new mexico nuclear waste plant will temporarily stop its waste acceptance and other operations to complete multiple maintenance projects. The nuclear regulatory commission is considering the proposal but local support may be a challenge. This waste shipment was from los alamos national laboratory a major nuclear weapons research and development facility located north of albuquerque new mexico.

The first shipments of nuclear waste from the facility at lanl were sent to the waste isolation pilot plant near carlsbad after efforts were completed by the federal government to ready the site for the preparation and characterization of waste. Holtecs proposal would see waste from all the us. New mexico nuclear waste facility to pause operations january 30 2020 gmt carlsbad nm.

By associated press wire service content jan. Ap a nuclear waste plant in new mexico has announced plans to temporarily stop its waste acceptance and other operations to complete multiple maintenance projects at the facility officials said. Nuclear energy utilities be transported thousands of miles across the country to the proposed facility in new mexico.

Holtec international a corporation that specializes in managing spent nuclear fuel has purchased 1000 acres of desert in southeastern new mexico for a consolidated interim storage facility. Opponents of a nuclear waste facility proposed near carlsbad continued their call for federal regulators to deny permitting for the facility and argued it would create undue danger for the public and environment in new mexico and throughout the country. The first nuclear waste arrived to the plant on march 26 1999.