Adrian Hedden Carlsbad Current-Argus achedden@elritomedia.com Concerns for safety at the almost 30-year-old nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad lingered despite a three-month pause of disposal ...

There are two opposing views about whether the New Mexico Environment Department should modify the permit that allows the Department of Energy to operate the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

(Reuters) - The United States' only permanent nuclear waste disposal site got the go-ahead on Friday to resume operations nearly three years after a radiation leak shut down the New Mexico facility.

(Reuters) - An investigative team plans to re-enter an underground nuclear waste site in New Mexico next week for the first time since an accidental release of unsafe levels of radiation there last ...