Key Shaft at WIPP may be Built by 2020

摘要

A major part of a multimillion-dollar effort to rebuild a ventilation system at the U.S. government's only underground nuclear waste repository is expected to be done by next year, officials announced last week. The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded a contract for the construction of a utility shaft essential to the project, the Carlsbad Current Argus reports . The shaft was designed with a 26-foot (7.9-meter) diameter, extending 2,275 feet (693 meters) underground.