The truck left Tuesday for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where its cargo will be buried in a subterranean salt bed. Not everyone was thrilled about the shipment. Some nuclear activists say the WIPP shipments detract from more pressing environmental concerns at SRS, a Superfund site where thousands of gallons of soil and ground water are contaminated with hazardous chemicals and radioactive materials. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the forerunner to the U.S. Department of Energy, asks the National Academy of Sciences to study the disposal of radioactive wastes. The first exploratory shaft is drilled at the site.
Underground excavation begins one year later.
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