New Mexico nuke repository defends plant safety plans

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A U.S. Department of Energy official says new procedures in place would have detected a drum filled with radioactive materials that ruptured earlier this month at Idaho’s Radioactive Waste Management Complex The Albuquerque Journal reports Todd Shrader, manager of Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s Department of Energy field office in Carlsbad, said […]