A Reporter's Guide to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
Other Resources
Books & Periodicals
Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom: The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Production in the United States and What the Department of Energy is Doing About It, U.S. Department of Energy, January 1995.
Compliance Application Guidance for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: A Companion Guide to 40 CFR Part 194, March 1994.
EPA and the WIPP, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, July 1994.
EPA Fact Sheet: Final Compliance Criteria for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (40 CFR Part 194), Document Number EPA 402-F-95-008, (Document Number EPA 402-F-95-001 (Spanish Translation).
Frequently Asked Questions on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Environmental Health Center, A Division of the National Safety Council, Washington, DC, 1997.
Implementation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act: FY 1996 Report to Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Living in the Environment, G. Tyler Miller, Jr., Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, CA, 1992.
The Nuclear Waste Primer: A Handbook for Citizens, The League of Women Voters, Lyons & Burford, New York, NY, 1993.
Public Participation: EPA and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, December 1995.
Radiation: Risks and Realities, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, August 1993.
Radioactive Waste Disposal: An Environmental Perspective, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, August 1994.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: A Potential Solution for the Disposal of Transuranic Waste, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 1996.
On-Line Resources
Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping (CARD)
http://www.unm.edu/~rekp/card.html
National Safety Council/Environmental Health Center
http://www.nsc.org/ehc.htm
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
http://www.nrc.gov
State of New Mexico’s WIPP Transportation Safety Program
http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/wipp
U.S. Department of Energy
http://www.wipp.carlsbad.nm.us
U.S. Department of Energy/Albuquerque Operations, National Transportation Program
http://www.ntp.doe.gov
U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Motor Carriers
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/omc/omchome.html
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/wipp