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Article: Nuclear waste delayed. (the Department of Energy's nuclear waste facility in New Mexico)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- October 19, 1991
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The Department of Energy last week temporarily delayed shipments to the nation's first permanent repository for nuclear waste, thus avoiding an immediate showdown with the state of New Mexico, where the underground facility is located.
Energy secretary James D. Watkins had announced in early October that the $1 billion facility was ready to open and informed the state that initial shipments could arrive by October 10 (SN: 10/12/91, p.228). The day before that deadline, New Mexico filed suit in federal court, seeking to temporarily block shipments until Congress could pass a pending bill that specifies limits on the amount of waste the repository can store during ...
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...AP Online 09-17-1998 CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) _ The opening of a $1.8 billion nuclear waste repository that has been waiting a decade for its first shipment will have to wait some more. The federal Waste Isolation Pilot ...
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