Plan calls for operations to resume at nuke dump in 2016

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – Some operations at the federal government’s troubled nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico could resume by the end of 2016 under a plan approved by U.S. Department of Energy officials, but critics voiced concerns Thursday about whether the facility would be ready to safely reopen.
The plan approved by the DOE’s field office in Carlsbad, New Mexico, addresses recovery activities at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, baseline operations and capital proj