The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, located 26 miles east of Carlsbad, New Mexico, that is the nation's, and the world's, first and only underground storage place for plutonium-contaminated wastes that come from producing nuclear weapons.

This underground cavern, located in Carlsbad, New Mexico, is a storage site for nuclear waste. It is also a proposed location for a National Underground Sciences Laboratory.

aste solation ilot roject, a planned disposal facility in New Mexico for transuranic and other radioactive wastes.