February 12, 2024 CARLSBAD, NM – Beginning February 12, 2024 until March 11, 2024, 5 p.m. – Salado Isolation Mining Contractors LLC (SIMCO) is offering college scholarships for Eddy and Lea County graduating seniors. A limited number of one-time $1,000 …
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CARLSBAD, N.M. — During the calendar year of 2023, the team at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) had its best shipment performance in 10 years, continuing the cleanup of sites in New Mexico and across the country. In 2023, …
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CARLSBAD, N.M., January 24, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) has reached another milestone. Just before the new year, crews began mining a new waste disposal panel out of the 250-million-year-old layer of salt …
January 11, 2024 CARLSBAD, N.M. ̶ The U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant had a safe and productive 2023. Watch the year-end accomplishments video.
Company selects eleven teachers from Eddy and Lea Counties CARLSBAD, N.M. ̶ Salado Isolation Mining Contractors, LLC (SIMCO) recently announced the company awarded $13,000 in STEM Teacher Mini-Grants to 11 area teachers throughout Eddy and Lea counties as part of …
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CARLSBAD, N.M., December 6, 2023 – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) has accomplished an EM 2023 priority to complete and dispose of 400 transuranic (TRU) waste shipments while striving to …
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CARLSBAD, N.M. – Members of the EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) workforce recently met an EM 2023 priority when they began commissioning the site’s new large-scale ventilation system, also known as the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS). When …
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EDDY COUNTY, N.M. – Salado Isolation Mining Contractors LLC, Edgewater Federal Solutions, Los Alamos Technical Associates, and Edgewater Technical Associates announced a collaborative partnership to fund STOP THE BLEED kits for the Artesia Public Schools staff. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant …
CARLSBAD, N.M., October 25, 2023 – The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently marked a significant accomplishment when critical infrastructure that will supply air for the largest safety-related ventilation system in the DOE complex reached its final depth of 2,275 …
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CARLSBAD, N.M., July 11, 2023 – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Carlsbad Field Office announced today that excavation crews recently attained a milestone in the construction of a new utility shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). They’ve …
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