WIPP's 20-person communications team, for example, tops the staff of 11 journalists on the local daily newspaper.
City schools get used computers from Westinghouse, which runs WIPP for the feds.
So far WIPP is empty, though it was ready for business by 1988.
Under the Department of Energy and its contractor, WTS, WIPP has operated flawlessly and without incident since 1999 (www.wipp.energy.gov).
In fact, more nuclear waste has gone into WIPP than was ever destined for that other famous nuclear repository, Yucca Mountain.
WIPP, it wrote, is a model of how that can be done.
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This included Marsha Firestone (WPO), Julie Weeks, Wendy Lopez(NWBC), Barbara Kasoff (WIPP).
Unknown to most, the United States has an operating deep permanent geologic repository for nuclear waste, called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP.
New Mexico, in agreeing to WIPP, required that Congress enshrine in law a promise that the feds would not send high-level waste into the state.
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My go-to organization on this is WIPP: Women Impacting Public Policy.
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Unemployment, a high 8.1%, would be a lot higher without WIPP.
In this rough region, where people have long worked the land, lived by their wits, taken risks, hoped for luck and respected authority, most local people welcome WIPP.
Located 26 miles east of Carlsbad, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is a world first: a series of man-made tunnels 2, 150 feet underground, designed to accommodate radioactive waste.
In the mine, dug through ancient salt deposits, WIPP will ultimately hold a total of 850, 000 barrels of lightly contaminated items like tools and clothing -- trucked in from ten nuclear weapons facilities around the country.
Prior to my present position, I was Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, the independent and academic monitoring facility for the Department of Energy WIPP, a little-known deep geologic nuclear repository for bomb waste.
Prior to my present position, I was Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, the independent and academic monitoring facility for the Department of Energy's WIPP site, a little-known deep geologic nuclear repository for bomb waste.
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