Nuclear Watch: USA WIPP Recovery Status @ NNMCAB Meeting (05/21/2014)
Channel: Deep13th Nuclear Waste Info
Date: 2014-06-15

Northern New Mexico Citizens' Advisory Board, May 21, 2014 (at 57:00 in):

    Question: Have you all identified if it's one drum, 20 drums, three drums? I've been hearing one drum a lot...
    Dana Bryson, Deputy Manager for the Dept. of Energy's Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO manages DOE's WIPP program): Well, we have one drum, that is pretty clear. We have other possibilities — and if you look at the pictures... you'll see weepage on many containers in the heat-affected area. What we're postulating is that the seals have basically degraded. So those could be potential sources from that aspect as well.
    Question: And could the denigration of any one particular drum have impacts on other adjacent drums?
    Bryson: Absolutely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNzt0xQL980

Officials: Leakage seen on "many" nuclear waste drums in WIPP underground — We think the seals have degraded — Public "should be concerned" about another explosion — 1,000s of radioactive drums now seen as too risky to move.