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wippen

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(Music, other) a part of the hammer action in a piano

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materials was feasible at WIPP, DOE would have to perform testing to

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Withdrawal Act: the importance of FLPMA's procedural requirements

As indicated by the geophysical well log response of P-8 from WIPP, the Rustler is approximately 140 meters thick at maximum and consists of approximately 50 percent halite (Chaturvedi and Channell, 1985).

Surficial manifestations of Permian salt bed dissolution near Loco Hills, New Mexico

The site for WIPP was chosen not only for its remoteness, but also because a layer of salt forms a geologically stable blanket for the drums of contaminated waste 2,100 feet below the surface.

The 10,000-year warning

The surface facilities at the WIPP include a receiving yard, where remote-handled waste packages arrive in shipping casks by truck or rail, and a waste-handling building, where the waste packages are unloaded and transferred into a facility cask.

Grappling with nuclear waste

Both guides are free and can be downloaded on WIPP's website at WIPP.org.

Guide gives Women entrepreneurs step-by-step tips

Baltimore, MD, August 16, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Gloria Larkin, President of TargetGov and Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) Educational Foundation Vice Chair, discusses Women Owned Businesses and current trends and issues affecting them in government contracting on the Government Contracting Weekly television series this Sunday, August 17, 2014.

Gloria Larkin Interviewed on Women Owned Businesses on Government Contracting Weekly Television Show

Joe Franco, who runs the Department of Energy's site office at WIPP, choked up as he took the stand at the meeting, telling the community that at first he took the findings personally.

Report: Nuke dump fire was preventable

URS Corporation (NYSE:URS), provider of engineering, construction and technical services, revealed on Friday that a URS-led partnership won a contract to manage and operate the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico from the US Department of Energy.

URS' partnership receives contract award from US Department of Energya[euro](tm)s WIPP worth USD1.3bn

Only a small portion of the site is being used, and by some estimates WIPP could store all of the nation's nuclear waste for the next 100 years.

The other nuclear problem: states are stuck with tons of nuclear waste while the federal government struggles with where to store it