Federal team at nuclear storage site to evaluate readiness

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) – A team of Department of Energy experts is evaluating the readiness of the federal government’s only underground nuclear waste repository to resume storage operations.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico has been closed since February 2014 due to a radiation release, and the Energy Department team arrived at the facility on Monday for a two-week review progress toward resumption of operations.
According to the department, the team will exam