US asks to store nuke waste aboveground after leak shut dump
Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 16:31
in Earth & Climate
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Energy wants to clear away nearly two football fields of desert in southern New Mexico to use as temporary storage for containers of radioactive waste coming from around the country while it works to reopen the government's only underground nuclear waste repository....