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New Mexico cancels permit to expand leaky nuclear waste site

2014-03-22 04:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: New Mexico on Friday withdrew a temporary permit allowing two new disposal vaults at a U.S. government nuclear waste dump grappling with a release of radiation in February, state regulators said. Seventeen workers at the Carlsbad-area "waste isolation pilot project" (WIPP) were exposed to radiation after an accidental leak last month from the site which stores waste from U.S. nuclear labs and weapons production facilities. State regulators were withdrawing the draft expansion permit to identify...

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