Mock operations begin at federal nuclear waste dump

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) – Workers at the federal government’s only underground nuclear waste repository are conducting operations using containers of simulated waste as they work to reopen the facility in southern New Mexico.
The mock operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant began Wednesday following a safety analysis that lasted several weeks.
The so-called cold operations are part of an eight-week process to make sure procedures for handling waste are adequate and that workers hav