The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) promised the People of New Mexico that

it would cleanup and dispose of its plutonium-contaminated nuclear bomb waste by

depositing it into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) over 25 years and close. DOE

broke its promise when that deadline passed on March 26 th , 2024. But DOE has a new

plan to keep the deep geologic nuclear waste disposal facility at WIPP open for 60 more

years for legacy bomb waste and for newly-generated bomb waste from fabricating new

weapons.