We specialize in disposal of special wastes used in the industrial commercial setting however also offer our. Hazardous waste disposal services are offered in new mexico by adco services to hazardous waste generators for all types of hazardous and non hazardous waste streams including radioactive and nuclear wastes in the state of new mexico. The latest budget request by the nuclear regulatory commission includes more than 47 million for a long stalled nuclear waste repository at nevada s yucca mountain 100 miles from las vegas.
Last year however the department of energy and nuclear waste partnership llc a private company that operates the plant told the new mexico environment department the permit should be altered. Government s only underground nuclear waste repository are among the challenges identified by a group of scientists and other experts tasked by congress to review the viability of a plan to dispose of tons of weapons grade plutonium at the desert location. Ap security and the availability of space at the u s.
Between the cities of carlsbad and hobbs about 70 miles apart lies 1 000. One day wipp might be joined by another nuclear waste site but this one exposed on new mexico s desert surface. Now comes the new mexico license application to the nuclear regulatory commission which in the opinion of the nevada nuclear waste task force the commission should not have accepted with the.
New mexico s executive branch and activist groups continued their fight against a nuclear waste repository proposed to be built near the eddy lea county line while supporters touted promises of economic benefits to the region and southeast new mexico s role in addressing the nation s nuclear waste. Supporters argued the facility was safe and would diversify the economy in southeast new mexico an area known for its heavy reliance on oil and gas industry for revenue and jobs while also fulfilling the region s patriotic duty to take a lead role in cleaning up the nation s nuclear waste. In a remote stretch.
Ap the first load of nuclear waste arrives in this march 26 1999 file photo at the waste isolation pilot plant site in carlsbad n m from los alamos national laboratory. The project is estimated to cost 19 billion in total. The waste is from the research and production of united states nuclear weapons.
The waste isolation pilot plant or wipp is the world s third deep geological repository after germany s repository for radioactive waste morsleben and the schacht asse ii salt mine licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10 000 years.
