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DOE Announces Plans for WIPP

January 22, 1998
Carlsbad, NM
DOE Announces Plans for WIPP

The Department of Energy announces that it will dispose of defense-generated transuranic waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in southeastern New Mexico.

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