In Cleanup Efforts, Accident at WIPP Points to Costs of Lapses

摘要

The State of New Mexico is nearing a decision on fining the Energy Department for its safety lapses at the repository - the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, near Carlsbad, N.M. - and at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the plutonium waste was packaged in a way that ultimately led to the accident. The storage drum was one of many filled there as part of a cleanup campaign.