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WIPP management tells DNFSB old hoist not a safety concern

Summary by ExchangeMonitor
While old, an underground hoist at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico is not unsafe, according to managers of the transuranic waste disposal site. “While all the WIPP hoists are experiencing reliability issues due to age and obsolescence, these reliability issues do not present safety risks to employees,” DOE’s Office of Environmental Management said in a Dec. 9 letter to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Sa…
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ExchangeMonitor broke the news in on Tuesday, January 6, 2026.
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