From: USA Today
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two months after radiation leaked from the
federal government's half-mile deep nuclear waste dump in southeastern
New Mexico, officials said Thursday that crews have found contamination
underground in the area where waste was most recently being stored.
Tammy
Reynolds, the U.S. Department of Energy's deputy recovery manager, told
a community meeting in Carlsbad that more trips need to be made into
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to further investigate the accident, but
officials hope to have more information next week.
Crews on their
fourth trip into the mine on Wednesday made it into the only active
waste storage area and found contamination, Reynolds said. The deeper
they went into the area, the more widespread the contamination, she
said. MORE
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