Nuclear Waste Burial at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

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Carlsbad, New Mexico - Radioactive plutonium and americium waste from America's nuclear weapons program in TRUPACT shipping containers at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Nuclear waste is shipped by truck from all over the country to be stored in rooms carved out of an ancient salt formation a half mile below the Chihuahuan Desert.

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Location: Carlsbad, New Mexico USA
Photo credit: © Jim West / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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