Nuclear Waste Burial at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

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Carlsbad, New Mexico - Containers filled with transuranic nuclear waste from America's nuclear weapons program await burial at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The materials are 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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