The U.S. Department of Energy says it is 80 percent confident that the federal government’s only underground nuclear waste repository will partly reopen in December. That prediction comes after federal officials once promised the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) would be cleaned up and reopened by this March, the Santa Fe New Mexican has reported. The New Mexico plant has been closed since February 2014, when an inappropriately packed container of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory ruptured and contaminated part of the facility.
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