Nuclear dump leak raises questions about cleanup
Friday, February 28, 2014 - 01:50
in Earth & Climate
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) -- For 15 years the trucks have barreled past southeastern New Mexico's potash mines and seemingly endless fields of oil rigs, hauling decades worth of plutonium-contaminated waste to what is supposed to be a safe and final resting place a half mile underground in the salt beds of the Permian Basin....