Las Vegas Sun

April 20, 2024

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is welcomed at the Carlsbad, N.M., airport as he arrives in southeastern New Mexico Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, to visit the government's troubled nuclear waste dump and talk with residents about the mysterious radiation leak and truck fire that have shuttered the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant indefinitely. About a dozen community leaders and residents were at the Carlsbad airport to welcome Moniz and show their continued support for the plant, which is the federal government's only permanent repository for waste from decades of nuclear bomb building and employs about 650 people.

AP Photo/Carlsbad Current-Argus, Zack Ponce

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is welcomed at the Carlsbad, N.M., airport as he arrives in southeastern New Mexico Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, to visit the government's troubled nuclear waste dump and talk with residents about the mysterious radiation leak and truck fire that have shuttered the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant indefinitely. About a dozen community leaders and residents were at the Carlsbad airport to welcome Moniz and show their continued support for the plant, which is the federal government's only permanent repository for waste from decades of nuclear bomb building and employs about 650 people.