New legislation revives WIPP.On Oct. 31, President Bush signed a law clearing away obstacles to tests of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world's first underground repository licensed to safely and permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste that is left from the research and production of nuclear weapons. (WIPP WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant WIPP Women Impacting Public Policy WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Project WiPP Working in Partnership Programme (UK; NHS General Medical Services) WIPP Wireless Internet Protocol Partnership ) near Carlsbad, N.M., a facility for storing nuclear-defense wastes. The bill transferred 10,240 acres of land -- containing WIPP -- from the Interior Department to the Energy Department. It also gives the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and 10 months to set standards characterizing the wastes that can be stored at WIPP during the initial five-year tests. DOE has been spending about $14 million per month to maintain the $1.1 billion facility in a standby mode A sleep mode in a portable computer that provides an almost immediate resumption of operation when turned back on. In standby mode, the hard disk and display are turned off, and the CPU is throttled down to its lowest-power state. since its completion in October of last year. |
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