WIPP Opens Doors to Journalist Tours for First Time in Years

摘要

You take the waste hoist down 2,150 feet into a salt mine. You are wearing a hard hat with a miner's lamp, a utility belt clipped with an emergency respirator - you know how to use it because you've just been trained - a yellow reflector vest and safety glasses. When the waste hoist gate opens, you file out onto the rails that will in some months' time again receive pallets stacked with drums of nuclear waste. This is where some of the leftovers of the nation's nuclear weapons production will come: to the deep, dark underground chambers of WIPP.