Feds prepare to repackage radioactive waste in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Energy is preparing to treat dozens of containers of radioactive waste that were inappropriately packed at one of the nation’s premier nuclear weapons laboratories.
It was a similar container from Los Alamos National Laboratory that ruptured in 2014, forcing the closure of the federal government’s only underground nuclear waste repository.
The chemical reaction that caused the breach was spurred by organic cat litter that was mean