A $100 million air shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ... from Los Alamos National Laboratory, amid pressure from NMED that the DOE prioritize waste shipments from within the state.

More: Nuclear waste transportation fears lingering amid storage project in southeast New Mexico When complete, it will be WIPP’s fifth shaft and serve as an air intake along with providing ...

A $100 million air intake shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant reached its final depth of 2,275 feet. Nuclear waste managers said they needed the shaft to add air for underground workers to ...

A multi-million-dollar air intake shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste repository in Carlsbad was drilled to 90 percent of its final depths, officials said, after years of delays ...