Government Accountability Office: More than Half of WIPP Infrastructure in Poor Condition

Government Accountability Office: More than half of WIPP infrastructure in poor condition

The report comes as officials consider a longer lifetime for WIPP — currently the nation's only underground repository for transuranic waste.

GAO finds WIPP still needs plenty of infrastructure work - ExchangeMonitor

Half of the key assets the Department of Energy needs to dispose of defense-related transuranic waste in a New Mexico salt mine were in “substandard or inadequate condition in 2023,” the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said Tuesday. In a report to congressional committees, GAO said DOE’s Office of Environmental Management should do a better job of monitoring its operations and management contractor at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP…