{"id":6046,"date":"2014-04-05T09:21:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2014-04-05T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:21:45","slug":"department-of-energy-second-trip-into-troubled-new-mexico-nuclear-dump-finds-no-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/05\/department-of-energy-second-trip-into-troubled-new-mexico-nuclear-dump-finds-no-contamination\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Energy: Second trip into troubled New Mexico nuclear dump finds no contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_140301460.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6049\" alt=\"shutterstock_140301460\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_140301460.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_140301460.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_140301460-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CARLSBAD, N.M. &#8211; Crews investigating a radiation leak at the U.S. government&#8217;s underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico have turned up no contamination during a second trip farther into the half-mile(kilometre)-deep repository.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Energy says Friday&#8217;s trip at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant allowed crews to establish a base where they can safely remove and store their clothing and equipment if it becomes contaminated.<\/p>\n<p>The crews also set up more air monitors and tested communication equipment.<\/p>\n<p>A third trip to find the leak&#8217;s source is expected next week.<\/p>\n<p>The repository has been closed since mid-February, when the leak sent low levels of radiation into the air and contaminated 21 workers.<\/p>\n<p>Samples from the repository&#8217;s salt deposits are being sent to a federal lab to begin testing decontamination techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARLSBAD, N.M. &#8211; Crews investigating a radiation leak at the U.S. government&#8217;s underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[734,735,352],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-nuke","tag-repository","tag-us","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}