LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – The EPA has approved more nuclear waste storage at the New Mexico Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site in Carlsbad. The WIPP site recently expanded to add two new panels for nuclear waste storage.

This has environmentalists concerned about the site filling to max capacity sooner than planned. The state is also worried about the nuclear waste site in Los Alamos not being able to dump at WIPP as much as other states' sites have been. When the contract was renewed in 2023, part of the agreement was that the New Mexico site in Los Alamos would be able to dump more than other states. But that hasn't been the case.

"Until Los Alamos is cleaned up in full, we need to preserve space in the nation's only repository that's in our backyard," New Mexico Environment Depar

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