US energy boss lauds opening of nuke repository

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The head of the U.S. Energy Department says it was the determination of workers and pure ingenuity that allowed the nation’s only underground repository for nuclear waste to recover from a radiation release.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz tells The Associated Press that resuming work at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southern New Mexico means the nation’s multibillion-dollar cleanup of waste from decades of bomb-making and nuclear research can get ba